On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:10:06PM -0600, 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:
>
> $String =~ /^(.*):/ ;
As mentioned by a couple of people, the non-greedy version of * is one way
of going about it:
$String =~ /^(.*?):/;
A faster way, however, is to realize that what you really want is
anything-but-a-colon followed by a colon:
$String =~ /^([^:]+):/;
Please see perldoc perlretut and perldoc perlre.
Michael
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