The system I am working on has setup for named processes as $xxxx. What I am
doing is converting a number of scripts to Perl and trying to make it easier to do.
The format is as stated and I have done a chomp on the line.
A line could look like:
$A212 This is a test description 255,251
I substituted what you gave me and I get the following:
$xxxx = $A212
$desc = This is a test description 255,251
$extra = ''
So unsure what I am doing wrong? I did not want the $ as part of $1, placed a
\$ in front of (\w+), but otherwise I get the above.
Wags ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 18:30
To: Wagner-David
Cc: 'Beginners'
Subject: Re: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string
On Feb 9, Wagner-David said:
> $xxxx description
> $xxxx description [,;]
> $xxxx description nnn,nnn
> $xxxx description [,;]nnn,nnn
> $xxxx description nnn,nnn[,;]nnn,nnn
>
> /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)\s+([,;\s]{0,}(\d{1,3}\s*,{1}\s*\d{0,3}))*/gi
What exactly are you trying to extract? I think it fails for the first
because of the \s+ after the (.+). Do you have a newline at the end of
your strings?
($xxxx, $desc, $extra) = $string =~ m{
^ \s* (\w+) \s+ (.+)
(?:
\s+
( ( [,;\s]* (\d{1,3} \s* , \s* \d{0,3}) )* )
)?
}x;
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