Stuart White wrote:
> Geez, I can't recall them covering (?: ) in my
> books...D'oh! The part about it grouping and
> capturing things makes sense, as it's the "cousin" of
> ( ). The part about being able to include the |'s
> doesn't. I found out, without knowing at the time,
> that the parentheses breakdown with |'s. I didn't
> know it at the time, but when I put the ORs in the
> parentheses and ran the program, I just got the
> command prompt, no output.
Greetings! E:\d_drive\perlStuff>perl -w
my $string = 'Yada, yuda, heyho, whuzit';
my $regex = '(Y.{3}).*?(y.{3}).*?(boingo|eekers|heyho).*?(\w*)$';
if ($string =~ /$regex/i) {
print "$1\n$2\n$3\n$4\n";
}
^Z
Yada
yuda
heyho
whuzit
So the problem may lie elsewhere in the match.
Joseph
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