In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Waspcatcher) wrote:
> hi,
> how does one extract *just* the matched text in a regular expression,
> e.g.
>
> my $text = "Hello 1234, come in";
> if ($text =~ /\d{4,4}/)
> {
> #grab just the 4 digit number
> }
>
> thanks
>
>
if ( $text =~ /(\d{4,4})/ )
{
print "captured $1\n";
}
parens around what you want to capture, and each paren group is from
left to right, stuffed in $1, $2, $3, etc.
see
perldoc perlre
for examples
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