Instead of + use *. * means 0 or more while + means 1 or more On Nov 21, 2012 4:51 PM, "shawn wilson" <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> how do i return something when i've got a long regex and one of the > captures is empty? > > $_ = '"435" "" "634"; > my ($one, $two, $three)= /^ > "(\d+)"\ > "(\d+)"\ > "(\d+)" > /x; > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >