Anthony Akens wrote at Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:49:53 +0200:
> I'm trying to find a way to match anything between two brackets [....] The stuff in
>between will
> have alpha, numeric, and symbols (including / - @ and spaces)
>
> For instance
>
> [akens@egh-org blah/blah/blah]
>
> I need to match that entire string, including the []'s
>
> Here's the ugly thing I've gotten so far to do it. But I know there's a way to
>simplify it and
> just match anything between the []'s. Thanks for any advice.
>
> \[[A-Za-z'-@]* \S+[A-Za-z'/]\]
^
I think, Perl will assume all characters between a ' and @
>
What about
m:(\[ [\w/\@'\-]* \])::x;
or quite a little more readable:
my $stuff_char = qr:[\w / \@ ' \-]:x;
m/(\[$stuff_char*\]);
Greetings,
Janek
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