You're regex (\w\S*) is matching them all but all within the regex loop, so
only the last is captured. You'll either have to do something fancy with
the zero length execution {?{ code here.. something like that }} or change
your approach to take it a chunk at a time.On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Kripa Sundar <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I need help to reset my brain, w.r.t. an apparently-straightforward regex. > I am sure I am missing something obvious here. > > I keep thinking that the regex below ought to get me all the words on a > line > except the backslash. Instead I am only getting the final word. > > (In my code, I threw out the regex, and resorted to split(). But my mental > blind spot on this regex is bothering me.) > > > % cat > input.txt > > a b c \ > > d e > > % > > % perl -lne 'print for m{ ^ (?: \s* (\w\S*) )+ \s* \\? $ }xg' !$ > > c > > e > > % > > peace, || Just the facts, ma'am: > --{kr.pA} || http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/ > -- > Yoga: origami for people. > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
