I'm trying to filter on the first character after the eighth tab but I'm
matching this line and don't know why:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/centernet/htdocs/ldap_auth$ perl -ne 'print if
/^(.*?\t){8}T/' /tmp/PeopleFinderData.txt |cat -vet
397^IRxxxxx^ITxxx^IT^I^ITTR^Itrxxxxx^IProgram officer
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/centernet/htdocs/ldap_auth$I piped it through 'cat -vet' so the tabs show up clearly as '^I's. This line shouldn't match, because the first character after the eighth tab is an A and not a T. I used non-greedy matching of the .*?, so I thought it would work properly. Would anyone explain to me why it's not working the way I thought it should? I'd also welcome suggestions of better ways to write this code. Thanks for your suggestions. -Kevin Kevin Zembower Internet Services Group manager Center for Communication Programs Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 410-659-6139 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
