no special order. thanks. - tao --- Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tao wang wrote: > > thanks a lot. But there is one problem - this is > my > > fault. The KEY1, KEY2 don't exactly look like > this. > > There are six KEYS. Three are related to KEYS, but > the > > rest of them are A_BEG A_END, B_OPTIONS, and I > need to > > extract information between them. I used one > variable > > $op=KEY1|KEY2|KEY3|A_BEG|A_END|B_OPTIONS to store > all > > the alternatives, and tried to use > > > > my @values = $line =~ /$op.*$op/g; > > > > But didn't work as i expected. Are there any > > problems. please help me with it. thanks again. > > > > Are they always ordered in the above manner or is it > possible for > B_OPTIONS to occur before KEY3, etc.?? > > >>> > >>> The line might be one of the following: > >>> KEY1 3 4 T KEY2 > >>> > >>> KEY1 3 4 T KEY2 456 67 KEY3 > >>> > >>> KEY1 3 4 T KEY2 456 67 KEY3 > >>> > > http://danconia.org >
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