Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-25 Thread Jay
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:39:42 -0500, renard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a newbie and have been following this thread since I am interested in > benchmarking. > > So I copied the code and ran it on my machine. I have a 3.5 MHz system > runing Windows XP. I am using ActivePerl 3.8.6. > > On my

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-25 Thread renard
I am a newbie and have been following this thread since I am interested in benchmarking. So I copied the code and ran it on my machine. I have a 3.5 MHz system runing Windows XP. I am using ActivePerl 3.8.6. On my machine, benchmark complained about too few iterations. So I modified the script in t

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-24 Thread Jay
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:46:38 -0500, Dave Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'plain_regex'=> sub { if ( $string =~ /^.{38}\|[BNPG]\|/ ) { > > my $a = $_ } }, > > 'plain_regex'=> sub { if ( $string =~ /^.{38}\|N\|/ ) { my $a = $_ > > } }, > > > > What was interesting to me was that

RE: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-24 Thread Graeme St. Clair
Perl Beginners Subject: Re: How to find regex at specific location on line Graeme St. Clair wrote: > Try the {} notation, that says how many whats are required before the > which (as it were). Perhaps something like:- > > if (/.{31,33}\|[BNPG]\|/){ > return 2; >

RE: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-24 Thread Jason Balicki
Thanks to everyone that answered this question. I ended up using (/^.{30}\|[BNPG]\|/). I plan on adding some more checks for "|" at specific locations (other than just ^ and $, which I have now) for sanity's sake. Thanks again. Would it be helpful to others if I were to post the complete script

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Gray
> 'plain_regex'=> sub { if ( $string =~ /^.{38}\|[BNPG]\|/ ) { > my $a = $_ } }, > 'plain_regex'=> sub { if ( $string =~ /^.{38}\|N\|/ ) { my $a = $_ } > }, > > What was interesting to me was that although, predictably, the > substring/regex combo was consistently the best perform

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-23 Thread Jay
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:34:54 -0800, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, two ways that I can think of: > > if ( substr( $_, 30, 3 ) =~ /\|[BNPG]\|/ ) { > > if ( /^.{30}\|[BNPG]\|/ ) { > > John > -- For the sake of comparison, here is a set of benckmarks for a c

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-22 Thread John W. Krahn
Graeme St. Clair wrote: Try the {} notation, that says how many whats are required before the which (as it were). Perhaps something like:- if (/.{31,33}\|[BNPG]\|/){ return 2; } Meaning, between 31 & 33 characters. Untested! No, that is not what it means. It means match

RE: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-22 Thread Graeme St. Clair
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:24 PM To: 'Perl Beginners List' Subject: How to find regex at specific location on line Hello, If you would, please consider the following input file: |6643|Jason Balicki | |0501211243|000:00:00|

Re: How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-22 Thread John W. Krahn
Jason Balicki wrote: Hello, Hello, If you would, please consider the following input file: |6643|Jason Balicki | |0501211243|000:00:00|0| S |0| ||13145551212 |N|| 0|001001|001001| 100| 10|B|A| And the following code: while(<>){ if (whi

How to find regex at specific location on line

2005-01-22 Thread Jason Balicki
Hello, If you would, please consider the following input file: |6643|Jason Balicki | |0501211243|000:00:00|0| S |0| ||13145551212 |N|| 0|001001|001001| 100| 10|B|A| And the following code: while(<>){ if (whichline($_) == 1){