Hi shawn,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:48 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> how do i return something when i've got a long regex and one of the
> captures is empty?
>
> $_ = '"435" "" "634";
> my ($one, $two, $three)= /^
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"
> /x;
>
You can do like so:
$_ = '"435
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:48:00 -0500
shawn wilson wrote:
> how do i return something when i've got a long regex and one of the
> captures is empty?
>
> $_ = '"435" "" "634";
> my ($one, $two, $three)= /^
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"
> /x;
>
First, this contains a syntax error. Please
Instead of + use *. * means 0 or more while + means 1 or more
On Nov 21, 2012 4:51 PM, "shawn wilson" wrote:
> how do i return something when i've got a long regex and one of the
> captures is empty?
>
> $_ = '"435" "" "634";
> my ($one, $two, $three)= /^
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"\
>"(\d+)"
