Mike Lesser wrote:
> Hi all. I have this strange relationship with Regex. I seem to be able
> to get simple
> stuff accomplished, but in really brute-force ways, and I think I'm
> missing some
> fundamental aspect of its usage. I'm forced to chomp thru strings from
> the
> side like pac-man. It's like I can do a simple match or substitution,
> but I can't
> get stuff out of a string that I want (which is what seems to be going
> on in all
> the examples).
>
> For example, if I have a string that goes like
>
> "Joe Shmoe (alphanumerics)"
Are you after the 'alphanumerics' and replacing or selecting.
Something like:
my $MyAlpha = '';
if ( /^.+\(([^)])+\)/ ) {
$MyAlpha = $1;
}
So this would have alphanumerics in $MyAlpha.
^ Start of field
.+ 1 or more characters
\( find a left paren
([^)]+) Now gobble up to but not including the next )
$1 will hold what is between the Parens
\) find a right paren
A good place to start is a book by Friedl ( Mastering Regular
Expressions ) ISBN: 0596002890
Wags ;)
>
> and I want to get the alphanumerics between the parens, It's like
> pulling teeth,
> I think (i think..) what I want to do is match the stuff that's _not_
> between the
> parens, and substitute that to nothing? Is that how to do it?
>
> Mike
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