Jeff Williams wrote, on Tue 12/14/2004
11:23
: I wrote a RegEx to let me know if a line of text has exactly 36 commas in
it (the comma is the separator) and I came up with this. I don't think it
is quite right. I could use a little pointing in the right direction. Any
thoughts?
: $lines[0] =~/^(.*?,){36}.*?$/
: I wrote a RegEx to let me know if a line of text has exactly 36 commas in
it (the comma is the separator) and I came up with this. I don't think it
is quite right. I could use a little pointing in the right direction. Any
thoughts?
: $lines[0] =~/^(.*?,){36}.*?$/
Presumably you also want the fields, eventually. I'd
use
@fields = split(/,/, $lines[0]);
and then you can simply check
if (@fields == 37)
{
}
(36 commas implies 37 fields). That way you already
have the @fields array when you want them later.
Presumably the magic number 37 is a constant defined
at the top of your script?
Good luck,
Joe
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