Noah Garrett Wallach <noah-l...@enabled.com> wrote on Thu, 17 Sep 2009
13:23:37 -0700
>Hi there Perl folks,
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>Okay I am trying to figure this out.
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>I am trying to match the following:
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>$line = "blah&blah&blah"
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>so I have the following line to match that
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>$line =~ /((?:blah).*?){0,5}/;
>But I want to capture "blah" in a variable like
>$capture = $1;
Assigning to variables in list context will return the "captured"
portions of the match, if any. So, given ':' appears somewhere in your
target line, a possible approach might be:
$line = "Testing:blah&blah&blah";
($blahpart) = $line =~ /.*:(.{5})/;
Hth,
Jim
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