Hi,
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Mike Blezien <mick...@frontiernet.net>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Regular expression have never been my strong suite
>
You might have to make it one. :)
> so hoping to get a litte help with a line in file I need to extract a
> portion of it.
>
> The text I need to extract from this line is "*November 21, 2013"* from
> this line in the file, just the date:
>
> Posted by <a
> href="mailto:someem...@email.com";>Some<someem...@email.com%22%3ESome>Name</a>
> on*
> November 21, 2013* at 23:21:58:<p>
>
> what would be the regrex to use to extract the date from the line ?
>
Something like this:
[CODE]
use warnings;
use strict;
$_ = 'Posted by <a href="mailto:someem...@email.com";>Some Name</a> on
November 21, 2013 at 23:21:58:<p>';
print $1 if(/.+on(.+)at/);
[/CODE]
You might have to read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html for in depth
documentstion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Tim
