Re: Regex searches including spaces

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 1:03 am, Paul Harwood wrote:
> I am trying to parse through the following line:
>
> TUITimer> TUI Dead Air Timer::1828ms::
>
> I want to extract the 1828 value. The regex I have is:
>
> if ( /TUI Dead Air(\d+)/ ) {
>
> I know this is wrong but I have tried every variation of \s that I can
> think of with no success. Also, is there a Regex generator of some kind
> where I can enter text searches and have them translated to Perl Regex
> format? I am using a Win32 platform.
>
> --Paul

Hi Paul,

you missed out the colons.  Have a look at 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$_='TUITimer> TUI Dead Air Timer::1828ms::';

print "$1\n" if (/Dead Air Timer::(\d+)ms/) ;
  
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