On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Russ Foster wrote:
> I have string, something like:
>
> $String = "aaa bbb: fffd: sdfsdf qweqd: adfsdf qwcdsfs: qwdq qchuti:
> qwiojd";
>
> Now, I want to extract everything from the start of the string, up through
> the FIRST colon ":" -- in this case "aaa bbb". My regex looks like this:
I would go with split here. This is the kind of thing split is intended
for:
my $String = "aaa bbb: fffd: sdfsdf qweqd: adfsdf qwcdsfs: qwdq qchuti:
qwiojd";
my $str1 = (split /:\s+/, $String)[0];
print "$str1\n";
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