Date sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:30:26 +0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Matching 5th and 6th characted
To: beginners@perl.org
Priority: normal
> Hello List,
>
> Struck up with a script in using regular expression. There are 6000
> lines in a csv file in which using an if conditon for a particular
> column.
>
> Think one of the column ($arcval) value is APBNSTWAP23. I wanted to
> take lines from the csv file for those columns whose value is ST for
> its 5th and 6th character. How can I implement this in perl using reg
> ex. Help needed.
if ($arcval =~ /^.{4}ST/) {
this regexp starts searching at the beginning of the string, skips
any four characters and checks whether the two that follow are ST.
HTH, Jenda
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