You may want to try $` $& and $' my $string = 'abcdefhij'; $string =~ /(def)/; print "$`:$&:$'";
**this prints: abc:def:hij However, use of $`, $&, and $' will slow down ALL of your regular expressions. -----Original Message----- From: Pakhun Alhaca To: Michael Fowler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/21/2001 6:45 AM Subject: Re: problem with filtering a corpus Dear Perl-friends! Thanks for quite a piece of advice in filtering my huge corpus. Now it is smaller and easy to read thanks to you. I bought "Perl for Beginners" and now I am working on my basic skills. For couple of days I was finding all the answers I wanted from my books but there is a new one that I stuck with. I use my corpus citating sentences one by one using different input separators $/ (now I am quite good at it) but I cannot make my script to give me not only a matching string but one before and one after. I tried $_ minus/plus 1 but it couldn't work - it is obviously not a number... How to tell Perl to give three strings (one before/needed/one after)? I hope this is more difficult than a previous one (^^)/ Thanks in advance! Alhaca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ -- 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]
