Re: Matching Over Linefeed and Space

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:25:59PM -0800, R. Joseph Newton wrote: > Clint wrote: > > sub barometer { > > local $_ = shift; > > Don't do that. You are not using the default variable in the > code at all, and it is a bad habit to be routinely tweaking > system variables. What benefit did you

Re: Matching Over Linefeed and Space

2003-11-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Clint wrote: > I'm trying to scrape a section of html and don't see why my regexp > stopped working this week. The relevant two-line sample section from > > http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/SCZ020.php > > is: > > Barometer: > 30.22" (1023.1 mb) > > (notice the space before ) > > My Perl

Re: Matching Over Linefeed and Space

2003-11-02 Thread Clint
That fixed it! Thank you very much! Clint Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Clint wrote: I'm trying to scrape a section of html and don't see why my regexp stopped working this week. The relevant two-line sample section from http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/SCZ020.php is: Barometer: 30.22" (102

Re: Matching Over Linefeed and Space

2003-11-02 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Clint wrote: I'm trying to scrape a section of html and don't see why my regexp stopped working this week. The relevant two-line sample section from http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/SCZ020.php is: Barometer: 30.22" (1023.1 mb) (notice the space before ) My Perl segment (that was workin