On Dec 16, Paul Kraus said:
>How can I grab a numeric string that contains commas.
... that ALSO contains periods in it.
>POINT Point Health Centers 19,466.79
>0.00 401.20 0.00 19,867.99
>if (/(^POINT)\s+ Point Health Centers\s+([\d\,]*)\s+.*/){
> print "$1 $2\n";
> }
The [\d\,]* matches "19,466", but then \s+ can't match because the next
character is a ".", so eventually, [\d\,]* matches NO characters at all
(since * means zero or more). Try:
if (/^POINT\s+Point Health Centers\s+([\d.,]+)/) {
$val = $1;
}
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