I'm showing my ignorance here - but maybe it's a better class of ignorance :-) ...
Why \2 and not \1? I recognise this as a backreference but don't know what happened to the first one. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 07/08/2013 11:24 AM Subject: Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> John McKown wrote: >I finally got how to parse the string and allow it to start and end with either a ' or a ". The start and end character must be the same. >($x)=$line=~m/((:(["'])[^\2]*\2)+)/; Thanks! You have cured my curiousity. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
