Re: Very beginner question

[M.W. Koskamp]

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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:50 PM
Subject: Very beginner question


<snip>>
> if I am trying to just extract "john" for the value $b, why would the
> following script not work.  I thought it would take bothIt returns the
> full (name=john)
<snip>

> while (<TRY>) {
> (my $b=$_) =~ s/^(\() (\w+)/$2/;
>     print $b;
> }

you are matching a "(" at the beginning of the line, followed by a
whitespace followed by one or more word characters.
As you can see, there is no such thing in yuor input.

try this:
# remove any characters follwed by an erqual sign and an optional whitespace
or a right bracket from $_
while (<TRY>) {
   s/.*=\s?|\)//g;
  print "$_\n";
}