Re: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-13 Thread Jos I. Boumans
nope, you dont need to escape that... reason for that is logical, but maybe not consistent... see, . is already a character class of it's own, holding 'everything'. So if you put that in ANOTHER character class, that would kind of beat the purpose of making a new class in the first place... so Per

RE: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-13 Thread Gavin Jackson
>-Original Message- >From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 12 July 2001 19:44 >To: Ken; Sebadamus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: MID in Visual Basic... [...] >Personally, I'd probably say > > my($val) = $line =~ /=\s*([\d.]+])$/; > >Tha

Re: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread Paul
--- Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > susbtr is almost identical to mid, but better (isn't that true for > most of perl?) > perldoc -f susbtr lol -- I think so. Compare "use strict" with "Option Explicit". =o) Anyway > - Original Message - > From: "Sebadamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > T

Re: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread Matija Papec
"Sebadamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Visual I used the MID function to get a part of a text... por ex. "price >= 33.10" and I could get using "=" and EOL as delimiters the price "33.10" this might work: $line =~ /=\s(.+)\n/s and $price = $1; where $line is your part of text and $price is

Re: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread Ken
Ack! Typo! substr - Original Message - From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sebadamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:18 PM Subject: Re: MID in Visual Basic... > susbtr is almost identical to mid

Re: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread Ken
susbtr is almost identical to mid, but better (isn't that true for most of perl?) perldoc -f susbtr - Original Message - From: "Sebadamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:24 AM Subject: MID in Visual Basic... > In Visual I used the MID functi

RE: MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread John Edwards
You could use something like this $string = "price= 33.10"; ($number) = $string =~ /=\s+(.*)$/; print $number; -Original Message- From: Sebadamus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 July 2001 16:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MID in Visual Basic... In Visual I used the MID functio