At 7:39 AM -0700 5/25/11, Irfan Sayed wrote:
hi,
i have string like this
"2011/05/25 07:24:58 -0700 PDT" i need
to match "2011/05/25"
i wrote reg ex like this: ^\d\d\d\d//\d\d/\d\d$
but it is not working
code is like this
$lin = "2011/05/25
07:24:58 -0700 PDT";
$lin =~ m/^\d\d\d\d//\d\d/\d\d$/;
You have two forward slashes there instead of one between the year
and month fields. You will have to escape the forward slash with a
backward slash if you use forward slash to delimit your regular
expression.
If you use a different delimiter, you don't have to escape the
slashes. Using extended regular expressions helps readability as well:
$lin =~ m{ \A (\d{4} / \d{2} / \d{2}) }x;
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