{
local $_ = 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\Common\IDE\IDE98\devenv.exe "%1"';
/^(.+?)\"/;
print $1;
}
Would that work? I'm just guessing here. Perl Newbie at best.
- Justin Rogers, CEO DigiTec Web Consultants
[COOP]DigiTec - Half-Life, Q3A, Unreal Tournament
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Subject: HOWTO Parse a string.
> I have a string that I cannot seem to see how to parse. I get it from the
> Win32 registry. It looks like:
>
> D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\IDE\IDE98\devenv.exe
> "%1"
>
> I would like to extract just the first part of the string (the path),
> dropping the argument ("%1"). Any ideas on how I can parse it?
>
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