You want to extract the LEAST possible...use $string =~ s/^(.*?)Call Distance/$1/;
Tanton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Falkenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bob ackerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:26 AM Subject: RE: Stripping everything after words found > Bob, > > This is what I had in the first place (($test) = $string =~ /(.*)Call > Distance/;). All I want to do is extract EVERYTHING before the first > instance of Call Distance:. From there using the same regular > expression I need to remove EVERYTHING after Call Distance:. Including > Call Distance:. So if I had the string... > > $string = "Kind Crud Call Distance: hell world Crud Call Distance:"; > > Using a regex. I should end up with only *Kind Crud* and that is all. > > Any ideas? > > Kind regards, > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: bob ackerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 11 March 2002 3:47 PM > To: Daniel Falkenberg > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Stripping everything after words found > > > oh - you didn't want to include 'Call Distance'? > then: > ($test) = $string =~ /(.*)Call Distance/; > > > would only capture text up to 'Call Distance'. Needn't worry about rest > of string. > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:54 PM, bob ackerman wrote: > > > how about: > ($test) = $string =~ /(.*Call Distance)/; > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:27 PM, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > > > $string = "Crud I want Call Distance more crud skdafj 343sad55434 "; > > > How would I go about getting rid of everything after the Call distance > and including the Call Distance? > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
