oops...forgot parens around the \d+...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Chappell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Matching a range
> Unfortunately, the range operator doesn't work in a regex...though it
would
> be nice if it did (of course I could be wrong)... I would try something
> like:
>
> while( <IN> ) {
> while( /,\d+,/g ) {
> if( in_range( $1 ) ) {
> # do whatever
> last; #get out of the while loop
> }
> }
> }
>
> The first while loop will loop through the lines of the file as you
already
> know. The second while loop will loop through the numbers that are
> surrounded by commas. If one of them is in_range (I leave it to the
reader
> to devise an appropriate in_range function), then it will do the
appropriate
> actions and break out of processing the current regex. It will then
> continue on to the next line.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Chappell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:55 AM
> Subject: Matching a range
>
>
> > I read a file line by line, on each line if any numbers in the range
> > specified below exist between comas,
> >
> > Example:
> > Line 1> hello,world,123,,
> > Line 2> The grass,456, is,greener,
> > Line 3> On,533,the,other, side
> > Line 4> As, long, as the,10000,grass is watered
> > Line 5> Bye,world,680,,
> >
> > print the line to another file. I have tried different variations. In
the
> > example above and based on my ranges, line 3 & 5 should be printed to
> > another file. Where am I going wrong?
> >
> >
> > while (<IN>) {
> > if
> >
>
(/,[512..520|528..568|576..578|592..600|608..622|624..670|672..685|768..771]
> > ,/){
> > print OUT;
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave Chappell
> >
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