regular expressions gurus

[Jim Purtell]

I have a string I'm trying to chop up to ruturn just a portion to the screen when called/printed.

This is the entire string.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jim:

If all you want is the string in double quotes following the string "value=" you might do:

# X='

[Jim Purtell]

JRF

can you show me how this would be incorporated into this line? If at all possible.

@nextline=split( ,$nline);

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

So it seems that $nline holds what you want to match and extract from. Hence:

...
$nline = ;
$nline =~ m{value="([^"]+)"} and print $1,"\n";

...will print the word "test" in your example.

We want to match the contents of $nline. We are looking for the string 'value="..."' and we want to extract whatever lies between an opening double quote and a closing one. If we can match this, the $1 variable holds the match and that's what we print.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jim Purtell]

JRF,
that's the answer I was looking for ..
Thank you so much!!

I'm still reading my camel book on the section of Pattern-Matching Operators though.

Regex's are a beast! But I'm still learning :-)

thanks again

[Jim Purtell]

Thanks for the quick help JRF!