On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:38:30PM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:11:20AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> I need help in regular expression. I have string as follows.
> >>
> >> OMS.FD.08.03.000.14
> >>
> >> I need only OMS.FD.08.03.000 this much part of the string.i want to
> >> exclude .14
> >
> > That's not much of a spec. How far have you got?
> >
> > Perhaps one of these possibilities will help?
> >
> > $_ = "OMS.FD.08.03.000";
>
> It was 'OMS.FD.08.03.000.14'
The original was. I was providing an (admittedly unlikely) potential
solution.
Followed by some more, which might have been more likely.
> > s/.14//;
> > s/\.\d+$//;
> > s/\..*$//;
> > s/^((?:[^.*]\.){4}[^.]*).*/$1/;
>
> All of those options will modify the object string, which is unlikely to
> be what is wanted.
Which was sort of my point. Who knows what was actually wanted?
> Without knowing the full range of possible strings, I suggest the
> program below may help.
See, now you're playing too ;-)
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