David, Thank you very much for your help. Don't know Utah, I have a lot of friends from there. The expression you provided is almost what I am after. Here is my string.
my $String = "Characters(803), Value(3)"; What I am trying to get is "803", but I keep getting "(803)". Is there a way to get 803 without the enclosing parens? Thank you Kristofer ----Original Message Follows---- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kristofer Hoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Extract numbers from in between parentheses with regex Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:26:23 -0600 ------------------------------------------------------ my $var = "(801) 555-5555"; # ya, ok so I'm in utah :) $var =~ /(\(\d+\))/; # real paren, escape paren, \d = digits, # + = one or more, escape paren, real paren my $area_code = $1; # set to what came from between the real parens ------------------------------------------------------ but if you are looking to match anything between the parens, you probably want something more like this: ------------------------------------------------------ my $var = "some text (my comment) and more text"; $var =~ /(\([^\(\)]+\))/; # real paren, escape paren, [^\(\)] = any non ( or ), # + = one or more, escape paren, real paren my $matched_value = $1; # set to what came from between the real parens ------------------------------------------------------ Regards, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristofer Hoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:21 AM Subject: Extract numbers from in between parentheses with regex Hi all, Please forgive the simple nature of this question. I have never really used regular expression extensivly. Here goes. I am trying to extract a number from in between two parenthesis. I want the first value I find (from right to left) in a string. These numbers could be phone number area codes, or comments. Could someone please help, so that I can shamelessly use it all over the place? Thank you Kristofer. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
