I figured it out, nevermind! If anybody already replied and it just hasn't made it through the mail servers yet, thanks anyway!
-------------------------- David Olbersen iGuard Engineer 11415 West Bernardo Court San Diego, CA 92127 1-858-676-2277 x2152 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Olbersen > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Removing what was matched > > > I'm trying to move over a string and match two types of > patterns, call them A and B. B always matches A, and A never > matches B. > > To work this out I decided that once I matched A on my input > string, it would be a good idea to remove what I matched from > the string. > > As a trivial example, I do this: > > my( $a, $b, $c ) = $input =~ m/$A/o; > my $match = $&; > > ... processing ... > > $input =~ s/$match//; > > This works great -- but not for all cases! > > I perform regexs in processing, but that shouldn't matter > since I save $& directly when I want it, right? > > Is anything blatantly wrong? Is there a better way to do > this? Does anybody need more information? > > -------------------------- > David Olbersen > iGuard Engineer > 11415 West Bernardo Court > San Diego, CA 92127 > 1-858-676-2277 x2152 > > -- > 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]
