>Hi all,
>I would like to match a string variable in a longer string retreiveing
>the match plus 5 extra characters at each side of the
>match.
>This what I mean:
>$var = 'something';
>$line = 'SDFGHAsomethingWDFTsft';
>and, I would like to get in a new variable the string
>'DFGHAsomethingWDFTs'.
>Any help in doing this will be very appreciated.
$line = 'SDFGHAsomethingWDFTsft';
$var = "something";
@x = ($line =~ /(\w{5})($var)(\w{5})/);
##or $newVar = $1.$2.$3;
You may consider using eval to precompile the expression in case you have a
lot's of records to regex on !! This will speed it up!!
Cheers
Shishir
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