Hi, Suppose I have:
my $string = 'Jan 19 11:37:21 firewall date=2007-01-19 time=11:42:15 devname=TESTfirewall device_id=FGT-602905503304 log_id=0104032006 ty pe=event subtype=admin pri=information vd=root user="admin" ui=GUI(192.168.1.1) action=login status=success reason=none msg ="User admin login successfully from GUI(192.168.1.1)" '; That is, on a regular \s+ split, I will produce this list of strings: Jan 19 11:37:21 firewall date=2007-01-19 time=11:42:15 devname=TESTfirewall device_id=FGT-602905503304 log_id=0104032006 type=event subtype=admin pri=information vd=root user="admin" ui=GUI(192.168.1.1) action=login status=success reason=none msg="User admin login successfully from GUI(192.168.1.1)" However, I only want to split it with \s+ as delimiter, only if that \s+ is followed by "\w+=" so that the: 'msg="User admin login successfully from GUI(192.168.1.1)" will not be splited. I tried putting parenthesis in my split pattern: split/(\s+)\w+=/, $_ So that it will only split the line delimited by space if it is followed by any "\w+=" just like when doing a regexp matching. But the program treats \w+= as part of the whole pattern so instead of getting: date=2007-01-19 time=11:42:15 devname=TESTfirewall device_id=FGT-602905503304 I got: 2007-01-19 11:42:15 TESTfirewall FGT-602905503304 Any idea how to accomplish my goal? ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
