> I have a lot of trouble understanding regexes, i just don't get how to parse
> a file with:
>
> "Hablar es el arte de sofocar e interrumpir el pensamiento". Thomas Carlyle
> (1795-1881); historiador y ensayista escocés.
> "Se aprende más por lo que la gente habla entre sí o por lo que se
> sobrentiende, que planteándose preguntas". Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936);
> escritor inglés, de origen indio.
> "Hay palabras que suben como el humo, y otras que caen como la lluvia".
> Marquesa de Sévigné,(1626-1696); escritora francesa.
> "El destino es el que baraja las cartas, pero nosotros somos los que
> jugamos". William Shakespeare (1564-1616); poeta y dramaturgo inglés.
>
> I need to separate for print the quote, then the name and the coments.
my ($quote, $name, $reign, $comment) = $line =~ /^"([^"]*)"\. # Quote
([^\(]+)\( # Name
([^\)]+)\)\; # Reign
([^\.]+)\.$/x # Comment
They can get hairy, and that's probably got an error in it. Basically
you need to know:
^ means start of line
$ means end of line
() means capture and store in a magic variable ($1, $2, ...)
[] means a character group (called a 'class')
[^] means an inverted character class, which is anything that isn't
these characters
The /x at the end allows me to put in comments, good luck!
Jonathan Paton
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---------------BEGIN GEEKCODE BLOCK-----------v3.12
GCS/E d+ s+: a20 C++(+++)>$ UHL++>+++ P+++ L++>++++
E- W++(-) N+ o? K- w--- !O M-- !V PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP
t@ 5-- X-- R- tv- b DI+ D- G++ e h! !r--->++ !y---
----------------END GEEKCODE BLOCK-----------------
JAPH: print`perldoc perlembed`=~/(Ju.*)/,"\n"
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