I don't write regular expressions...ever...

So can someone give me a regular expression that will remove all of the
characters at the start of a string up to and including a "-" (without
quotes).

Chris Cappelletti
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Subject: Re: More time calculations

Chris Cappelletti wrote:

> I don't know what database you are using, but you should make your
> database eliminate all duplicate records before perl ever gets it.  For
> instance using MS SQL you can use the word DISTINCT as in "select
> distinct blah" which will give you one of each "blah" even if you had
> more than one.  Hope that helps.

If that can't be done, a hash would probably be your best bet.



> An inexperienced Perl user question, which I hope makes sense.  I am
> trying to get a list of items from a database and don't want to repeat
> items for viewing on the web. I have tried some regexs but no luck.  Any
> thoughts?
> 
> @zoo =("family");

my %zoo = ();   # or you could preload if family is a title: ('family' =>
1);

> while ( @row = $cursor_title->fetchrow_array)
>                 {
>                     $title                 = $row[0];
> 
>         if ($title =~ m/@zoo/       ) # here I don't know what to insert
>           {

        if ($hash{$title) {
                print $title;
        } else {
                $hash{$title} = 1;
        }
>           }
>         else
>           {
>             print "$title";
>           }
> 
>                     push(@zoo, "$title");
> 
>                 }


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