err.. make that "sleep better"
kinda got side tracked with work :}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Smolarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Will Crain'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: A Split Question
> I stand by my reply to this post. Sure, unpack is quicker. But if you use
> regex, i always prefer to use my own defined regex's
>
> my $dateis = "2Jul2001";
> my ($date,$month,$year) = $dateis =~ /([0-9]+)([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]+)/;
>
> It makes me sleeper at night
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Will Crain'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:54 PM
> Subject: RE: A Split Question
>
>
> > Sorry to pick holes in your first post to the list ;) but this part of
> your
> > suggested regex
> >
> > (\w{3,})
> >
> > will match any alphanumeric character (i.e it will match on the numbers
or
> > letters in the string). By limiting it to three places, you force the
> match
> > to work. It's not good practice though.
> >
> > Matching on a non-digit character will produce the same result, with
more
> > flexibility.
> >
> > So
> >
> > ($day, $month, $year) = $date =~ /(\d+)(\D+)(\d+)/;
> > ^ ^ ^
> > | | |
> > Match one or more numbers | |
> > | |
> > Match one or more NON numbers |
> > |
> > Match one or more numbers again
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Will Crain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 03 July 2001 15:41
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: A Split Question
> >
> > -- Original Message --
> >
> > >My file has dates in it that either come out as "2Jul2001" or
> "21Jul2001".
> > > So one or two digits for the day, three for the month, and four for
the
> > >year.
> > >
> > >So I would like to split out the day, month, year, and am interested in
> > >splitting techniques, where there are no delimeters.
> > >
> >
> > This is my first contribution to the list, I hope it helps. You should
> > be able to extract your date data using this regex -
> >
> > ($day, $month, $year) = $date =~ /(\d{1,2})(\w{3,})(\d{4})/;
> >
> > This assumes $date contains your date string and results in $day, $month
> > and $year containing the individual data bits.
> >
> > Will
> >
> >
> >
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