I'm working on a script that I need to use some pattern matching in. I've got a couple books that I have been reading about it and thought I knew how to seach for what I'm after but its just not working.
Here is a test script I've been playing with to get this working. I want to be able to parse out of the string any one of the 'letter=values'. The way I'm trying to get this to work is by searching for the Letter of the parameter I'm searching for follow by the =. Then I add a .* which matches anything. Then I want to match to end with a ' But no matter what I've tried I will never find the ' It find the beginning of my search then go to the end of the string. I've played with escaping the ' but that didnt seem to work either. What I end up having to do to get it to work is end the seach with the Letter= of the next variable in the string and then clean it up but I really don't want to have to do it that way as its not very flexable and relies on the string being in a certain order and I don't want to count on that. If anyone has an idea about what I'm doing wrong I would be most grateful. #!/usr/bin/perl $test = "'A=test' 'P=lkjae' 'p=12' 'H=goober@localhost' 'n=crfrinch' 't=3453462'"; $_ = $test; /(n=.*')/; $username = $1; print "$1\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
