On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:26:16 +0100, Paul Beckett wrote: > I'm trying to pattern match the beginning of a SQL string like: > INSERT INTO `rwikiobject` VALUES > ('0b5e02f308c5341d0108fca900670107','2006-03-06 > 23:36:41','/site/ec07580d-1c66-469f-80be-c0afd616cedf/alembert, d > \'','/site/ec07580d-1c66-469f-80be-c0afd616cedf' >
Wouldn't your life be a lot easier, not to mention reduced in regex complexity, if you used SQL::Parser from CPAN? -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>