Any Perl book will have a chapter on Regular Expressions (Regexes for short)
but the master book if you really want to go deep into the subject is : Mastering Regular Expressions Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl <http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/666?x-t=book.view> See : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/ <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/> _____________________________________________ Bruno Bellenger Sr. Network/Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] [PMX:##] Removeing www? Excellent that was it! Is there any docs and this anywhere where I can tally up on filtering data like this etc? Thanks, John > this code-snippet: > --------------------------------------------------- > > $m = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > $m =~ s/^www\.//i if $m =~ /\@/; > print "$m\n"; > > $m = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > $m =~ s/^www\.//i if $m =~ /\@/; > print "$m\n"; > > $m = 'www.myrealemail.com'; > $m =~ s/^www\.//i if $m =~ /\@/; > print "$m\n"; > > --------------------------------------------------- > the print-result: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.myrealemail.com > > only in the first case, the 'www.' is removed > > -- > Friedel Wittrock > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. September 2002 10:28 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: [Perl-unix-users] [PMX:##] Removeing www? > > > > I have a perl script that takes a user a password and an email address along > with some other information. Problem is I get people created profile > accounts with there email address prefixed by www. example: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] what I want to do is remove the www. from the > rest of the email and preserve the original email before the entry is > writing to file. I want to make sure that we are not removing www if it is > in the email address example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and only a prepended www. !? > How would you accomplish this and distinguish between the two? > > Thanks!!! > John > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
