On 9/19/11 Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:56 PM, "Rajeev Prasad" <rp.ne...@yahoo.com>
scribbled:
> $string="alpha number='42'"
> $string=~s/.*\=// ;
> $string=~s/\'//g;
>
> to get 42 and not '42'
>
>
> can these two substitutions be combined?
If you know what you want to extract, then use capturing:
if( $string =~ /'(\d+)'/ ) {
$number = $1;
}
or shorter (but not better):
($number) = $string =~ /'(\d+)'/;
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