On Dec 6, Paul Kraus said:
> if ($data=~m/\f([0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9])/){
> $pos=tell (FILE);
> print "$pos --pos\n";
> last;
> }
You don't want tell(FILE). You want to know WHERE in $data the pattern
matched. For that, use the @- array (if you've got Perl 5.6 or better).
if ($data =~ m[\f\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2}]) {
$p = $-[0];
last;
}
If you don't have Perl 5.6, you'll need to be a bit more creative:
if ($data =~ m[(\f\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2})]g) {
$p = pos($data) - length $1;
last;
}
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