Nick Diel wrote: > I am having a hard time getting a regular expression to work the way > i want it to. Take the following text: bla bla bla (la la) bla bla > (di da) > > I want to extract the la la to one variable and di da to antoher > variable. What I have tried so far is using match variables, but so > far I am only able to match either just la la or la la) bla bla (di > da.
To grab the stuff in parens: my @matches = $var =~ /\((.*?)\)/g; @matches will contain 'la la' and 'di da'. You could assign to separate vars with: my ($la, $di) = $var =~ /\((.*?)\)/g; How it works: \( = match an open paren ( = start capturing . = match any char... * = ...zero or more times ? = shortest string... ) = end capture... \) = followed immediately by closing paren /g = do this repeatedly, returning list of all captured strings HTH. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
