Re: Pattern Matching kills loops?

2000-02-08 Thread Cliff Rayman
check the archives. some people were having a problem with the entire file being processed as one line instead of line by line. cliff rayman genwax.com Steven Clark wrote: > > > I open the file needed for reading and then inside the loop whenever the > first match occurs the loop is for some re

Solved: Pattern Matching kills loops?

2000-02-08 Thread Steven Clark
Well my saying is that everyone will be made to look like an fool at least once a week came back and bit me this week :( After posting the message I went to bed and started to think about it and consequently solved my own problem. Since I was using the SSI example from the eagle book the funct

Re: Pattern Matching kills loops?

2000-02-08 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
Whooops, Steve, I guess you should check whether your match is actually successful as in: if (/(\d+):([0-9,]*):(.*)/) { $id = $1; $temp = $2; $name = $3; $CAT{$id}{"name"} = $name; } otherwise you get whatever $1/$2/$3 happen to be before the match.

Re: Pattern Matching kills loops?

2000-02-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
I'm not going to respond to the general Perl question (this list isn't for that), but I have to point this out: > "Steven" == Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steven> m/(\d+):([0-9,]*):(.*)/; Steven> $id = $1; Steven> $temp = $2; Steven> $name

Pattern Matching kills loops?

2000-02-08 Thread Steven Clark
Hello everyone, Well over the past day I have been trying to debug this problem yet can't figure out a solution. Here is the problem, I am using the SSI program from the eagle book on page 94-104. Now that works fine but I have a function that is in the include file which needs to read in a c