There's no need to match past the CN=, then prepend the CN= back to the
string. Use the following
$dnvalue = "CN=foo,OU=bar,O=pah";
$dnvalue =~ /(CN=[A-Za-z0-9]*)/;
$username = $1;
print $username
This looks for CN= followed by any number of letters (upper or lowercase)
and numbers. If you don't mind matching on an underscore too (_) use the
following instead
$dnvalue =~ /(CN=\w*)/;
HTH
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 June 2001 17:17
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: simple regex question
Hello all.
I've learned a bit about regular expressions today. I have a string
formatted
like "CN=foo,OU=bar,O=pah" and I need to parse out "foo". I have created the
following code which does work:
$dnvalue =~ m/([^,]*)/;
$username = $1;
$username =~ s/(CN=)//;
print $username
However, I'd like to do the match/replace on a single line. Can anyone show
me
how to combine these statements into a more elegant regular expression?
Thanks,
Mike
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