John
What you're doing looks OK, but it's my guess that either the user name doesn't
start at the beginning of the line or the state doesn't finish at the end, i.e.
you have leading or trailing spaces but have anchored your pattern to the ends
of the string.
Try
foreach (
" root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DLs ",
"root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 ILs")
{
m/ (\w+) \s+ (.+\b) \s+ (\w+) /x;
print "$1\n";
print "$2\n";
print "$3\n";
}
Which works with or without leading or trailing spaces. It also tidies up the
regex and doesn't hand you a user name padded to 7 characters with spaces (which
yours would, if it worked).
HTH,
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 04 September 2001 18:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: regex: can't match pattern... dang
>
>
> I posted a similar question last week; this is a rephrasing.
>
> I have the following strings:
>
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DLs
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 ILs
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DL
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DL
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DL
> root Wed Aug 22 04:44:59 2001 DL
> root Wed Aug 22 04:46:37 2001 Is
> root Wed Aug 22 11:46:38 2001 Ss
> root Wed Aug 22 11:46:39 2001 Ss
> daemon Wed Aug 22 11:46:40 2001 Is
> root Wed Aug 22 11:46:41 2001 Is
> root Wed Aug 22 11:46:41 2001 Ss
> root Wed Aug 22 11:46:41 2001 Is
> root Wed Aug 22 12:31:21 2001 Is
> postfix Wed Aug 22 12:31:21 2001 I
> root Wed Aug 22 12:32:21 2001 Ss
> nobody Wed Aug 22 12:32:21 2001 I
> nobody Wed Aug 22 12:32:22 2001 I
> nobody Wed Aug 22 12:32:22 2001 I
> nobody Wed Aug 22 12:32:22 2001 I
>
> I want three things:
>
> user, the entire date, the state.
>
> I'm currently trying to get this with:
>
> for(@procs){
> /^(.{7})\s+?(.{24})\s+?(\S+?)$/;
>
>
> I want $1 to be the user (e.g. 'root' 'postfix').
> I want $2 to be something like 'Wed Aug 23 05:30:01 2001'.
> I want $3 to be the state, which was a lot of forms, but which is, for
> example 'DLs' above.
>
> Shouldn't this get the first 7, then 24 characters, then the glop that's
> left over?
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> -John
>
>
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