$string = "\<programme start=\"20021221235500 UTC\" stop=\"20021222001000 UTC\" channel=\"carlton.com\>"; ($programme, $stop, $channel) = ($string =~ m/\S+\s\S+\"(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\"(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\"(\S+)\"\>/);
If the <> were not actually part of the string, this will work the same ($programme, $stop, $channel) = ($string =~ m/\S+\s\S+\"(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\"(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\"(\S+)\"/); Maybe not the most elegant way of doing it, but it works. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Boardman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple string parsing Hi all I'm attempting to write my first perl script to parse a couple of lines and would appreciate some help extracting data from the folloing example Data: <programme start="20021221235500 UTC" stop="20021222001000 UTC" channel="carlton.com"> I want to extract 0021221235500 and 20021222001000 and carlton.com I have tried to to use pattern matching using =~ etc but cannot seem to get the pattern correct anybody any ideas? Robb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
