On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 07:57 , Eduardo Cancino wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm parsing a text file with this estrcuture line:
>
> 'here is a quote'. Autor (birth year - death year); occupation
> nationality.
>
> ======
>
> I need to separate from the beggining to the first dot, ignoring the dots
> in
> side the two ''.
>
> but i have tried to escape the ' (\'), but no use, what i'm missing or
> what
> should i read.
how about this:
my $derQuote;
#hereDoc great for nesting stuff
my $line =<<derLine;
'here is a quote'. Autor (birth year - death year); occupation
nationality.
derLine
chomp($line); #decruft der line
($derQuote, $derOther) = ($1, $2) if( $line =~ /'(.*)'\.(.*)/) ;
print "derQuote we find is:$derQuote:\n"
print "Undt der Rest of it all:$derOther:\n:$line:\n";
The Round Braces capture what you want into the $1 and $2 - you
only need to 'guard' when looking for things like "." in your
regEx that you wish to use as delimiting elements.
cf perldoc perlre
ciao
drieux
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