Hi George, Are you looking for a TCL script or a PERL regex expression, if you are using PERL then try the code what Dmitry Motevich has written if u need in TCL then try the below
----------------------------------------------------------- set x "Linz_Untauglich Dr." set result [regexp (_)(.*) $x match]; puts $match; ------------------------------------------------------------ Regards Mazhar On 1/25/06, John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > George Homorozeanu am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 16.12: > > I need it with RegEx, that's my problem. > > > > Thanks, > > > > George. > > > > "Xavier Noria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:23, George Homorozeanu wrote: > > >> I am very new in RegEx and I want to be able to write an > expresion that > > >> does > > >> the following: > > >> > > >> Return all the characters from a string starting from the 5-th > > >> character. > > > > > > You want to do it with a regexp for some particular reason? > That's the > > > job of substr(). > > Could you have a look at the following man page (type it at the cmdline): > > perldoc perlretut > > This is a (short) tutorial about regexes. Although this list is for > beginners, > I personally feel that it is advisable to have a minimal understanding > about > the code one writes - and your regex question is *very* basic and > described > in the man pages. > > You say that you want to be *able* to *write* this expression, so I don't > think my post is impolite. > > If, after reading the manual and having *tried* to write the regex, you > still > need help, post again. > > (The full regex details you can find with > perldoc perlre) > > hth, joe > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > >