Thank-you. I don't recall that Camel mentioning the white-space subtlety,
but I also haven't hit chapter 5 yet. /(.*?):/ gives me what I needed.
At 09:17 PM 08/23/01, you wrote:
>On Aug 23, Rob Waggoner said:
>
> >while ($line = <LOGFILE>) {
> > $line =~ /\[(.+)\] /; # get date time value between []
> > $ThisDateTime = $1; # should look like 19/Aug/2001:06:28:45
> -0600
> >
> > # this works
> > #($ThisDate, $Junk) = split(/:/, $ThisDateTime);
> >
> > # this is more elegant? Turn 19/Aug/2001:06:28:45 -0600 into
> >19/Aug/2001
> > $ThisDateTime =~ / (^.*?:) /; # is this pattern bad?
> > $ThisDate = $1; # or does $1 need to be 'reset'?
>
>Your whitespace is killing the regex. The regex
>
> / ^/
>
>can never match -- there can never be ANYTHING BEFORE the beginning of the
>line.
>
>Also, the $DIGIT variables are not set to undef on a failed match -- they
>retain their previous values.
>
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