Re: Doing some text parsing

2001-09-04 Thread John Way
Christopher, You wrote... "The L in L54 would tell me what the data actually means, but the 54 is the part of that data I need to file based on the L it was attached too." Here is one way to do it... $test = "L54"; $pattern = "L"; if ($test =~/^$pattern/) { $test =~ s/^$pattern//; } print "$

RE: Doing some text parsing

2001-09-04 Thread Rob Dixon
September 2001 19:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Doing some text parsing > > > Hello, > > This is my first message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I'm not completely sure > of the proper method of asking questions. > > First: Is there a web-based archive of this

RE: Doing some text parsing

2001-09-04 Thread Kaleb Murphy
ct me. } } -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Doing some text parsing Hello, This is my first message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I'm not completely sure of the proper method of asking

Doing some text parsing

2001-09-04 Thread Christopher Fisk
Hello, This is my first message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I'm not completely sure of the proper method of asking questions. First: Is there a web-based archive of this list? If So where? Second: I'm trying to parse some text for a decoding program. How would I decode something based on the firs