Hi shawn,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:48 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;
>
You can do like so:
$_ = '"435" "" "634"';
if ( my ( $one, $two, $three ) = /\"(.*?)\"/sg ) {
print join "\n" => ( $one, $two, $three );
}
Please note the use of '=', since we are using regex on '$_' as the string.
Clear and better practice is to write like so:
$_ = '"435" "" "634"';
if ( my ( $one, $two, $three ) = $_ =~ m/\"(.*?)\"/sg ) {
print join "\n" => ( $one, $two, $three );
}
Moreover, if you have the module Data::Printer from CPAN installed, the out
dispaly will be more meaningful. like so:
use Data::Printer;
$_ = '"435" "" "634"';
if ( my @arr = /\"(.*?)\"/sg ) {
p @arr;
}
OUTPUT
[
[0] 435,
[1] "",
[2] 634
]
Data::Printer ->
http://search.cpan.org/~garu/Data-Printer-0.34/lib/Data/Printer.pm
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