Re: including . in a pattern match

2006-01-30 Thread Keith Worthington
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:26:42 -0500, Chas Owens wrote > On 1/30/06, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Well, the answer was right in fromt of me. The delimiter pattern is > > matching the first hyphen and the integer pattern is matching the > &g

Re: including . in a pattern match

2006-01-30 Thread Keith Worthington
snip > > The only challenge is that the $p_number pattern seems to match all of > the following. 10 1/2 10-1/2 10--1/2 > > I started out with (\s+|-?) as my delimiter pattern and then when that > didn't work I changed it to (\s+|-{1,1}). It still matches the case > with two hyphens. Can you t

Re: including . in a pattern match

2006-01-30 Thread Keith Worthington
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:26:51 -0500, Chas Owens wrote > On 1/30/06, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Wow, it is going to take me some time to wrap my head around this > > code. I really like the commenting idea. That certainly will > > help

Re: including . in a pattern match

2006-01-30 Thread Keith Worthington
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:26:51 -0500, Chas Owens wrote > On 1/30/06, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Wow, it is going to take me some time to wrap my head around > > this code. I really like the commenting idea. That certainly > > will help

Re: including . in a pattern match

2006-01-30 Thread Keith Worthington
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:31:18 -0500, Chas Owens wrote > Another thing you can do is break your larger regexes into parts to > make them more readable/maintainable. It also helps to use the x flag > so that you can separate the individual tokens and comment them. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict

including . in a pattern match

2006-01-27 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, I am still a newbie in Perl and it is only with the help of this list that I was able to construct the following pattern match. ($v_size_str =~ /\d+\s*['"]\s*x\s*\d+\s*['"]/i) The problem that I have just realized that this string will match the first line of this input file but not t

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Keith Worthington
hi , I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. thanks in advance. regards, Kaushik Kaushik, If you are on the command line I suggest the use of the tail command. tail -n 123 filename If you must perform this oper

Re: need help please

2005-04-24 Thread Keith Worthington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi My program is to send data using an online form. I have the web page for the form. But the web page does not receive the data from the cgi file. I check my work in DOS. When I type perl -c bonus.cgi I get a message tell me syntax ok. But when I check with : per

Re: Need help match feet and inches

2005-04-21 Thread Keith Worthington
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:19:28 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote > Keith Worthington wrote: > > Hi All, > > Hello, > > > Here is my code so far. I am really getting frustrated with my > > inability to get this right. > > > > I didn't understand Chris&#x

Re: Need help match feet and inches

2005-04-20 Thread Keith Worthington
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:34:37 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote > Hello, > Please stop making new threads for the same topic. Reply to the same > thread. Keeps the group organized as well as our inboxes and archive > searches. > If someone else who had a simliar issue and did a google search they > could clic

Need help match feet and inches

2005-04-20 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, Here is my code so far. I am really getting frustrated with my inability to get this right. I didn't understand Chris' earlier suggestion about using defined but I tried using it anyway. I cannot seem to get the pattern match to properly handle a dimension that is just feet or just inch

default value from match

2005-04-20 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, I am still slugging it out. Many thanks to those that have helped me thus far. :-) Having written the following code I am now troubled by v_feet_str or v_inch_str being undefined. If there is no match can I return a default value? In my case if there is no dimension then I want to move

More help with split

2005-04-20 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, I continue to work on my first perl program. :-) I am stuck again and could use your guidance. Here is the code snippet that I am working on right now. The problem that I have is that when processing a size like 30" x 150'6" it sees the first dimension as a number of feet. How can I ge

Re: Help with split Was Need RE. New to Perl

2005-04-19 Thread Keith Worthington
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:19:31 -0400, Jay Savage wrote > On 4/19/05, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:23:00 -0400, Jay Savage wrote > > > On 4/19/05, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi All,

Re: Help with split Was Need RE. New to Perl

2005-04-19 Thread Keith Worthington
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:23:00 -0400, Jay Savage wrote > On 4/19/05, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Many thanks to Jay for his examples I have now written a perl script > > that is munging a text file. Eventually I will move

Help with split Was Need RE. New to Perl

2005-04-19 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, Many thanks to Jay for his examples I have now written a perl script that is munging a text file. Eventually I will move the perl code into a function inside a postgresql database. I am processing inputs like the following: 815 HTPP Black 2in sq Border: RMFP025BK Size: 7'10" x 16' Tag:

Re: Need RE. New to Perl

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Worthington
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:30:39 -0400, Jay Savage wrote > On 4/18/05, Keith Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to the list and need some quick help. I have been > > kicking around with vi and sed for years but never took the >

Need RE. New to Perl

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All, I am new to the list and need some quick help. I have been kicking around with vi and sed for years but never took the time to learn Perl. Now I need to use Perl and could really use a jumpstart. I am writing a function in the Postgresql database using Perl because of its text processin