Gregory Machin wrote:
I'm writing a script to import logs into a Mysql .. My Perl is rusty and I'm battling with a convention on the one column. I need to remove the text in inverted commas "Prashil" 106 so that just the number 106 remains.. I have been trying the following regex s/(\"([^"]+)\"\s)//g but it doesn't seem to work. I got it from a website .. It looked correct .. mmm .. with regard to it's structure i don't quite get ([^"]+) as I have tried replacing it with other combinations and had less luck. I have also tried s/\"([:word:])\"\s)//g ...
Your substitution code (not: regex) looks OK, so something else is wrong. The substitution code can be simplified to: s/"[^"]*"\s*//g Maybe your data is encoded in some way? -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
