Hi,
So I tried something like this .It works !
if( $_ =~ m/ID\s=\s"(.*?)"\sDirAbsolute/){
print " Test ID is $1 \n" ;
}else{
print " FAILED to locate Test ID \n" ;
}
May be its crude way.
Thanks
Alok.
----- Original Message ----
From: Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: alok nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:38:09 PM
Subject: Re: parsing a line
On 6/28/07, alok nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am parsing a file which has lines like this.
> <Test Description = "Test 1" ID = "ID A1" DirAbsolute = "C:/perl"/>
> Got stuck up while trying to extract values of fields called
> Description, ID ?
What have you tried?
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