Hi Rana,
if the data what you need is something
xxxyyyyzzz>fffffgggg
then you can take the entry before > by the following code
$x=xxxyyyyzzz>fffffgggg
($data_required,$data_notrequired)=split($x,">").
Hope the above will solve the problem.....
Cheers
Mazhar
On 2/3/06, Dhanashri Bhate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Give the sample data and then only one can tell what kind of regex you
> need.
> If your data is simple, just fields delimited by ">" you don't need to
> write
> regex, you can just work with "split". Read the data lines one by one, and
> for each line use split to get the fields in an array.
> Also remember the list is to help perl beginners, so no one will respond
> positively if you just ask, I want to do this and help me.
> Read Perl docs, try something yourself and then post if you face any
> problems.
>
> Regards,
> Dhanashri
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:24 AM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: extracting information from a file
>
> Hi,
> I am a new bee to perl and I am trying to extract data present between
> delimiter ">". I am not exactly sure how to write the regular expression
> so
> that I can assign the extracted information to a string or an array.
>
> Kindly help me in this regard.
>
> Thank you.
> Rana
>
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