----- Original Message ---- From: I.B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: begginers perl.org <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:02:39 PM Subject: Re: Selective splits... (treat this "pattern" as a delimiter only if it is followed by this "pattern")
> you can use lookaheads: > my @matched = split /\s+(?=\w+=)/,$string; I've already figured that out, but there's one problem I encountered: What I did was to modify the entire line first and substitute all necessary \s+. with '*' so that splitting will be easier. Those \s+ were: all spaces if the following word is not either date or time and also all spaces if the following word is \w+= My regexp looks like this: $_ =~ s/\s+(?!(date|time))/*/g ; Now, having a problem where to put my parenthesis to add the "?=\w+=" condition.. Can you help me with this? I tried several times but I failed. Thanks. > cheers, > ~i On 1/19/07, Michael Alipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
