On Oct 25, Woz said: >turn the following string > >insert_job: DUKS_rtcf_daily_log_purge job_type: c > >into > >DUKS_rtcf_daily_log_purge job_type: c > >i.e. remove from the beginning of the line up the space following the >first :
You're probably trying s/.*: //; which is matching greedily all the way to the last : it finds. There are two approaches you can take to fix this: s/.*?: //; # non-greedy matching stops as soon as possible s/[^:]*: //; # match zero or more non-colons -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
