On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:58:14PM -0500, Ron Newman wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > > >If I slurp a file into a string variable (either Uri's way or my own > >way), and then do a regexp match, I'd like to determine the line > >number(s) of the match. Is there a straightforward or canonical way > >to do this? > > I've already gotten one private reply of "don't slurp the file". To > head off any more, I should add that my regexp match may span multiple > lines.
You could count newlines after doing the match, maybe something like: substr($_, 0, $-[0]) =~ tr/\n// + 1; $-[0] is the offset of the start of the match. But I think the best way really depends on what else you're doing with the string. Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
