It works like charm Kenton!

Thank you very much! :)

aSH

On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 06:14 PM, Kenton Brede wrote:

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:22:46PM +0100, aSH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to learn and use the patterns. This is my first "serious"
try with perl.

I have a long list of words and phrases that I need to find.

Let's take this example. I want to find this patterns anywhere, no
matter if there are followed by other characters:

Central PendingCall object
PendingCall.getOutputParameter
PendingCall.getOutputParameterByName
PendingCall.getOutputParameters

I have been trying this:

pattern="m/Central PendingCall object/"
pattern="m/PendingCall.getOutputParameter/"

But the last one it shadows PendingCall.getOutputParameterByName

So I tried this, but I'm not sure what this is doing:

pattern="m/\bPendingCall.getOutputParameter\b(?!B)/"

I want to find my patterns always, with repetitions.

I have been following this tutorial
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perlretut.html
But now I need help with the code because I'm lost and I need to send
my code.

First let me say I'm a beginner myself so the following is not necessarily best practice but it works. I'm sure someone will give you a better solution. It would be easier to help if you would have posted code but I've taken a stab at what you are trying to do.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
    print "$1\n" if m/\b(Central PendingCall object)\b/;
    print "$1\n" if m/\b(PendingCall.getOutputParameter)\b/;
}

__DATA__
Central PendingCall object what the
PendingCall.getOutputParameter add this
that is the truth PendingCall.getOutputParameterByName
Central PendingCall object the
PendingCall.getOutputParameters
Adding a line here
PendingCall.getOutputParameter
__END__

I think only one line really needs explanation here.

print "$1\n" if m/\b(Central PendingCall object)\b/;

"$1" contains the matched text in () "\b" defines a word boundary.

Hth,
Kent

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