On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 16:23, Noah Garrett Wallach
<noah-l...@enabled.com> wrote:
> Hi there Perl folks,
>
>
> Okay I am trying to figure this out.
>
> I am trying to match the following:
>
>
> $line = "blah&blah&blah"
>
>
> so I have the following line to match that
>
> $line =~ /((?:blah).*?){0,5}/;
> But I want to capture "blah" in a variable like
> $capture = $1;
>
> or something like that?
>
> am I on the right track?
>
> Cheers,
snip
Depends on what you want. Your string is "blah&blah&blah", which
means (?:blah){0,5} will match the first four characters: "blah". The
"&" will prevent it from matching any more. You may want something
like this instead:
my @matches = $line =~ /\b(blah)\b/g;
This will return all of occurrences of the word blah.
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