Joshua Colson schreef: > I'm trying to parse a date from a file and I would like to know how to > match a range of numbers with a regex? For example, the days of the > month 1..31. I understand that there are numerous modules that can do > the work for me, this is as much for my own learning as anything. > > Thanks. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $date = "Wed Jun 7 14:27:38 2006'; > > print $3 if $date =~ m{(Wed)\s(Jun)\s{1,2}([1..31])}; > > __END__
June doesn't have 31 days. See also Regexp::Common::time. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>