Re: return something

2012-11-21 Thread timothy adigun
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

Re: return something

2012-11-21 Thread Shawn H Corey
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+)"\ >

Re: return something

2012-11-21 Thread Danny Gratzer
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"; >

return something

2012-11-21 Thread shawn wilson
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; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@