nope... regular expression because I want to use it again to substitute that common part with a new string
basically with the example below I would want to change 'crap' to 'somethingelse' but the I want to be able to use it with various arrays that have different common strings that I won't know before hand. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:31 AM To: Nikola Janceski Cc: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: Re: Long shot on possibly existent pattern matching module? On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:52:43AM -0500, Nikola Janceski wrote: > I think I am asking a bit much on this... > > I was wondering if there is a module out there that will find a the common > pattern among an array of strings and return the regular expression to match > the common part. Do you really want a regular expression? How about: sub common { ".*" } > ie: > @stuff = qw (123crapstuff morecrap crappedshit); > > I want the module to return 'crap' since that is the common part in all the > items. > > I know... real long shot. I tried searching but don't even know what to > search for. Try Algorithm::Diff. I doesn't do just what you want, but it might get you part of the way there. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
