On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Gary Stainburn
<gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> print STDERR "About to split '$model'\n";
> if ($model=~/ *?(\w*) (.*?) *$/) {
> $enqmake=lc($1);
> $model=$2;
> print STDERR "model split into '$enqmake' '$model'\n";
> }
> } # extract make
>
> This generates:
>
> enqmake='' model='Kia Venga'
> About to split 'Kia Venga'
Your RE is a bit odd - all that 'non-greedy *' -ness implies troubles.
The first "space star ?" can be greedy, right? You want all the
spaces/white space in a row, or rather don't want - as you're anchored
on the end, this doesn't do anything for the actual RE work. The next
"word char *" means zero or more - you want at least one, right? Word
char or non-white space? The only requirement your RE looks for is
the single blank between capture 1 and 2 - so
Kia\tVenga
won't work. Actually anything w/o a blank will fail ... don't really
know enough about your data but try maybe:
if ($model=~/(\S+)\s+(.*)\s*$/) {
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