On Jan 20, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Lewick, Taylor wrote:
Thanks to everyone's help so far, I think I am getting better with
Regular expressions...
Need a little help on this one
This is sample data, not accurate..
1. St Joes (15-0)
.875
(2-0)
2. Kentucky (12-2)
.850
(1-0)
10. Kansas (12-2)
Lewick, Taylor wrote:
Thanks to everyone's help so far, I think I am getting better with
Regular expressions...
Don't know if they have been mentioned, if not:
perldoc perlretut
perldoc perlre
Need a little help on this one
This is sample data, not accurate..
1. St Joes (15-0)
.875
(2-0)
Thanks Wags, terrific.
Colin
"Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO"
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13/01/2004 12:03 PM
To: Colin Johnstone/Australia/Contr/[EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: Reg ex help
Colin Johnstone wrote:
> Gidday list,
>
> Please I need a reg ex to return everything to the left of '\WORKAREA'
>
> in this URL
>
> $url = 'Y:\default\main\aphrwebAdmin\WORKAREA\Colin'
>
> I tried
>
> $url =~ s/(.*?)[\\WORKAREA]/$1/;
>
> then we wish to remove the drive designation and the l
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Colin Johnstone wrote:
> Gidday all,
>
> >From this string I wish to return everything to the left of the last
> occurence of "." if it exists.
>
> string = "3.25.23.4";
my $string = "3.25.23.4";
my $ret = '';
$ret = $1 if ($string =~ /^(.*)\./);
print "$ret";
This will p
Hi Colin
You may prefer this:
$line =~ s/[\d\s()]+$//g;
which will remove all trailing whitespace, digits and parentheses from
string $line.
Rob
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> Gidday All,
>
> Im reading course names in
Thank You Toby and Mark for your help
Colin Johnstone
Website Project Officer
Corporate Website Unit
Public Affairs Directorate
ph 9561 8643
> -Original Message-
> From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:55 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Reg ex help!
>
>
> Gidday All,
>
> Im reading course names in from a text file and want to
> remove the course number from the end
Is it always at the very end of the string?
If not, then are there any other numbers enclosed in parens in the course
names?
Probably the following should work:
$course =~ s/( \(\d+\)$//;
# removes a space followed by an '(' followed by 1 or more digits, followed
by ')' at the end of the string
F
