Response

2002-09-07 Thread Boris Penchev
Hi Everyone, I think that this is a good idea ( use regular expresion ): $str = "perl editor free blind accessible"; $str =~ s/^(.*?\s.*?)\s(.*?)\s(.*?\s.*?)$/$1\n$2\n$3\n/i; print $str; To make this you have of course other-s way use split and others things. Best Regards, Boris Penchev

Re: Splitting a string

2002-09-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Wiggins D'Anconia wrote at Sat, 07 Sep 2002 05:34:55 +0200: > Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> Hi and thank you. It works! >> Could you explain me please in a few words what is this line doing exactly? >> I want to learn. >> >> print join "\n", grep defined, ($string =~ /"(.*?)"|(\w+)/g); >> > [snipp

Switching to Perl

2002-09-07 Thread Timothy Campbell
About one year before Perl was invented (1987, as I understand it), I created a text-processing language of my own, named Parse-O-Matic. Like Perl, it ended up being a veritable Swiss Army Knife. However, it only has a few thousand users and I think it's time to admit defeat and switch to Perl.

Re: Switching to Perl

2002-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
- Original Message - From: "Timothy Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Switching to Perl > ...All I want is the essential perl.exe (for WinXP) so I can start learning. > > Can you tell me where I might find such a beast

Regular expression

2002-09-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I am trying to match a word boundry or an end of string. I would like something like: /$word[\bX]/ where X is the symbol used for end of string. I know that I can use $ but I don't think I can use it between brackets. I've seen that \b doesn't match the end or beginning of a string. I