Paul Appleby wrote: > Michael, > > This might be safer: > > $line=~/^([^-]*?)-/; > > $everything_to_first_hyphen=$1;
Why would that be ? And safer than what (you removed the RE you were referring to) ? The ? is redundant and I don't see why [^-]* would be any safer than .*?- (I might use either). >>I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm missing it - What's the regular >>expression to extract everything from the start of the line to the >>first hyphen? -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
