The is what I was looking for..Thanks All
----- Original Message -----
From: Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:40 pm
Subject: Re: Matching 5th and 6th characted
To: beginners@perl.org
> Date sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:30:26 +0500
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> Subject: Matching 5th and 6th characted
> To: beginners@perl.org
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> > 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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