Timothy Johnson wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, what happens if you leave off the parentheses on $btwn?
Putting a parantheses on $btwn assigns $1 to $btwn. The statement can be broken
into two statements as
if ($str =~ /In:(.*)Your/) {
$btwn = $1;
}
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
> To: Daniel Falkenberg
> Cc: Timothy Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 3/7/02 10:07 PM
> Subject: RE: Finding words between words...
>
> On Mar 8, Daniel Falkenberg said:
>
> >That is very similar to what I am looking at doing. The only problem
> is
> >I don't want to replace anything in between In: and Your; I just want
> >to extract anything between In: and Your and store it as a variable.
>
> ($btwn) = $str =~ /In:(.*)Your/;
>
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> <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of
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