On Feb 9, Wagner-David said:
> 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.
That's why your regex failed -- you had \s+ after the description, and
there was no such spaces.
> 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
>$1, placed a \$ in front of (\w+), but otherwise I get the above.
Oops, I left the \$ out of the regex. I'm sorry.
>> /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)\s+([,;\s]{0,}(\d{1,3}\s*,{1}\s*\d{0,3}))*/gi
($xxxx, $desc, $extra) = $string =~ m{
^
\s* \$ (\w+) \s+ (.+?)
(?:
\s+
( ( [,;\s]* (\d{1,3} \s* , \s* \d{0,3}) )* )
)?
$
}x;
Try that, then.
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