On Sep 8, Gary Luther said:
>$line =~ s/\s{2,}(\w+(\s?\W?\w+)*).*?/$1/;
I think you want to use something a bit simpler for the \w+... part:
$line =~ s/\s{2,}(\S+(?:\s\S+)*).*/$1/;
That gets non-whitespace (\S+) followed by any number of occurrences of a
single whitespace followed by MORE no
I have the following line:
REQUESTED DATE:LPD WRITE UP/OFF PARAMETERS
RUN DATE: 09/06/01 16:30
Now this is just one manifestation of the line or similar lines.
It may or may not have the REQUESTED DATE: phrase.
It may or may not hav
