On Feb 26, Balaji Thoguluva said:
>I have a question on pattern matching. Assume I have a line like this
>consisting of header field(via) and values(IPaddress) repeated like below
>
>via: 192.168.6.100; via:192.168.6.101; via: 203.290.89.90; ......so on
>
>I would like to know how many via: header field occur and to get each
>via header field value. I want to know how to loop through each via
>header field to extract the value by pattern matching expressions.
You want to use the /g modifier to your regex. Either employ it in a
while loop like this:
while ($string =~ m{via:\s*(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)}g) {
print "value = $1\n";
}
or use it in list context like this:
@values = $string =~ m{via:\s*(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)}g;
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