[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, on Friday, May 05, 2000 13:57
: 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?
You could split on whitespace to an array (my @arr = split ' ';),
and then pop off the last element (the argument), assuming the arg
had no spaces, and then rejoin on space; but that might be
problematic, especially if there *could be* a space in the
argument.
Do you know for sure there will never be a double-quote '"' in the
path? How about:
s/".*$//;
That should be wicked-fast for a regex. You'll have whitespace at
the end of the path, though; but that probably wouldn't be a problem
(you're going to pass this path to "open" or something?). If it is,
make that
s/\s+".*$//;
which will be slower.
Joe
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