On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
> I use /pattern/g to progressively match a string (who
> content is read from a file)
> I want the cut the string off after the n-th match (if
> there is no n-th match, the string is unaltered)
> how can I do this without using a loop?
> right now, I am doing this:
>
> while ($string =~ /pattern/g){
> $count++;
> if ($count > $max_count){
> $string = substr($string,0,pos($string));
> last;
> }
> }
How about:
$string =~ s/((.*?$pattern){$max_count})(.*)/$1/s;
George P.
>
> I know about $', $` (and what's the third one?), but I
> just can't figure out how to apply them in this case.
>
> thank you!
>
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