Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 05:11 PM 9/27/05 -0700, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
>
>>\s* means to grab any WS at the current position (including the case where
>> there is none).
>>
>>\s*? means 0 or 1 of the above which is totally meaningless - you've already
>> eaten all the WS with the \s*, so in my
At 05:11 PM 9/27/05 -0700, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
>\s* means to grab any WS at the current position (including the case where
>there is none).
>
>\s*? means 0 or 1 of the above which is totally meaningless - you've already
>eaten all the WS with the \s*, so in my opinion the ? is redundant t
Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 12:08 AM 9/27/05 -0700, robert johnson wrote:
>
>>and by the way, *? is redundant.
>>* means zero or more.
>>? means zero or one.
>
>
>
> Actually the *? construct is not a redundancy. It calls for a minimal match
> rather than a maximal match, which is the default.
Craig,
> Is there a loop I can use that will process the first 10,000
> files, then
> exit; then the next 10,000 files, then exit; and so on until
> all files
> have been processed? The exiting is so I can run a SQL Server job to
> insert the processed files into SQL Server.
Like every other
At 12:08 AM 9/27/05 -0700, robert johnson wrote:
>and by the way, *? is redundant.
>* means zero or more.
>? means zero or one.
Actually the *? construct is not a redundancy. It calls for a minimal match
rather than a maximal match, which is the default. Although it was useless
in the example.
Chris Wagner wrote:
At 02:46 PM 9/26/05 -0400, Craig Cardimon wrote:
I am reading in portions of large files into string variables. The
number of and size of the files vary by month. Right now I'm working
with nearly 70,000 files, the largest of which is 7 GB. Not all files
are processed, but
David Budd wrote:
I thought this was working, but my logs just showed a case where it
seems not to do what I want.
Why does:
$OK_body=($body=~/library\s*?card\D*?(\d{7})\D/i) ;
Not become true when $body contains:
Library Card: 0240742
i'd bet that it passes when you have some whitespace af
