On 11-09-19 08:56 PM, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
$string="alpha number='42'"
$string=~s/.*\=// ;
$string=~s/\'//g;
to get 42 and not '42'
can these two substitutions be combined?
thank you.
It depends on what you want to extract. To extract a string inside
single quotes after an equal sign:
$string =~ s/.*\=\s*\'([^']+)\'/$1/;
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