....or you can remove the tick marks with the code... $line =~ s/'//g ;
-rjf > -----Original Message----- > From: Hanson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 09:45 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Regex Help > > > Maybe something like this: > > @line = split /:/, $theLineOfData; > @line = map { s/^'(.*)'$/$1/ } (@line); # removes the ticks > > And to match the whole word: > > if ( $field =~ /\bBRANCH\b/ ) { > # matches word boundary > } > > Or you could remove the whitespace as well to simply things... > > @line = split /:/, $theLineOfData; > @line = map { s/^'\s*(.*?)\s*'$/$1/ } (@line); # removes the ticks > > if ( $line[0] eq 'BRANCH' ) { > # do stuff > } > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Regex Help > > > Here is snippet of data: > > 'BRANCH ':'Kurt':'Strothenke' > 'BRANCH ':'Michael':'Mulligan' > 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Kevin':'Oaks' > 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Thomas':'Grove' > 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Stephen':'Orban' > 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Gerald':'Parnell' > 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Liane':'Mcintyre' > 'BRANCHADMIN ':'Ann':'White' > 'BRANCHADMIN ':'Brent':'Uhl' > > 2 problems: > > 1. I want to remove the tickmarks from fields 1,2,3 and > put the data into an array using the : as a separator. > I am having trouble getting rid of the tick marks, > everything else works fine. > > 2. I want to match whole words only. I don't want to > BRANCH to match on BRANCH_SSC or BRANCHADMIN. My code > currently matches BRANCH with all three. > > Thanks for your help > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
