-----Original Message-----
From: richard noel fell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pattern matching question
I have the following bit of code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open In2,"/home/rfell/tutoring/beaven/webproject/tmp/maxima_log" or die
"Cannot open maxima_log:$!";
my $Line;
while (defined($Line=<In2>)){
if($Line=~/(\(D\d+\))\s*(\w*)/){
print "==> $2\n";
};
};
#close In2;
maxima_log is the following
(C1)
2335
(D1) - ----
24
(C2)
(D2) 0
(C3)
(D3) /home/rfell/tutoring/beaven/webproject/tmp/maxima_results
(C4)
I want to match the D lines, so my match pattern is as above. It seems
that I have the following construct:
(D followed by a digit(s)) followed by white space followed by some
characters. I want to capture the last characters. In the above example,
for line (D2), I want to get the "0", which is stored, I hope, in $2.
However, I get no match. If I replace $2 with $1, I do get the (D1), etc
to print.
Another question
1) If I change the match pattern to /(\(D\d+\))\s+(\w*)/, that is, one
or more occurences of white space, I get no match at all. $1 does not
print out now. Do I not really have white space?
Has anyone any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks for your help to a
perl newcomer.
Dick Fell
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Your pattern match /(\(D\d+\))\s*(\w*)/ is not correct. You stated :"It
seems that I have the following construct: (D followed by a digit(s))
followed by white space followed by some characters." That is not quite
right.
Your construct is: (D followed by one or more digits) followed by zero or
more white space characters followed by zero or more **WORD** characters.
Word characters are defined as any letter, number, or the Underscore
character (and possibly additional alphabetic characters defined a specific
locales). So, your hyphens don't get matched, nor do your slashes. That is
why your match returns unexpected results. You should change the last
portion to include other characters. One option is /(\(D\d+\))\s*(.+)/
which would then match $1 to one or more characters of ANY type.
HTH!
Jason
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