Re: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 02:45 , Kevin Cornmell wrote: [..] > Or try anchoring that regex. > > if ($radentry =~/\n\n$/){ > foo; > } this rules. > -Original Message- > From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [..] >> Quick question. How can I check if the last two ch

RE: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread Timothy Johnson
Good catch. That's what I meant. :) -Original Message- From: David Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:51 AM To: 'Kevin Cornmell '; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Timothy Johnson' Subject: RE: Patterm Matching > Actually, \n's ar

RE: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread David Gray
> Actually, \n's are the one thing that the $ anchor doesn't > work exactly right on. Usually it's not a huge deal, but > Perl will still match a line that has a \n after the part > that you are trying to match if you use $ to anchor. This is > normally very useful, as in the case of a line

RE: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread Timothy Johnson
f a string. $radentry =~ /\n\n\Z/; -Original Message- From: Kevin Cornmell To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 4/24/02 2:45 AM Subject: RE: Patterm Matching ++ Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this e-mail. +

RE: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread Kevin Cornmell
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Patterm Matching Andrew Tait wrote: > Hi All, Hello, > Quick question. How can I check if the last two characters of a string are > both new line's (i,e, \n) > > This is what I have

Re: Patterm Matching

2002-04-24 Thread John W. Krahn
Andrew Tait wrote: > Hi All, Hello, > Quick question. How can I check if the last two characters of a string are > both new line's (i,e, \n) > > This is what I have come up with so far: > > if ($radentry =~ /"*\n\n/") if ( substr( $radentry, -2 ) eq "\n\n" ) John -- use Perl; program fulfi