Xavier Noria wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 11:10, Alexandre Checinski wrote:
>> I have a string that looks like this :
>> <counter id="183268" since="SDOPERFV16" aggr="Sum"
>> name="pcmTcuFaultOutOfService"/>
>
> m// in list contex may help:
>
> my ($id, $name) = $xml =~ m{id="([^"]*)".*name="([^"]*)"/>};
I despair of ever understanding REs
How does the above work
m Match
{ inside these braces (as the delimiter?)
id=" the characters id="
( Start the capture for $id
[^"] The list of characters beginning with "
But wasn't that done on line 3 where we
looked for a "
* any number of characters
) end of capture for $id
" the end " for the data element captured
.* anything until
name=" etc do it all again till
} ending delimiter
So I have trouble with [^"]*
What words describe that expression please
TIA
Owen
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