On Jun 23, 2004, at 12:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK. I am reading a file. This line is at the bottom of the
file and the "****-----------******" is a sign that the section is complete.
This may be a sign that you aren't reading the file in the easiest possible way. I wonder if setting the input separator to this sequence would be the way to go. Something like:
local $/ = '****-----------******';
I need to be able to pick up that line, and see if there is also code on the beginning of that line that I need to save.
save( $1 ) if m/^(.+)\Q****-----------******\E$/;
So in this case I was searching for words (with colon's) and perhaps other code that precedes the "****----****" and to try and discard the end of the line. (After the word FILING, there is a page break character, but it's all being read in as one line.)
Is that a form feed character? Is it the only one in the file? You might be able to use that somehow. Ideas:
local $/ = "\f";
# or ...
save( $1 ) if m/^([^\f]+)\f/;
# or ...
my $words = (split m/\f/, $your_line)[0];
This is a sample of the line:
Comment: FILING ****------------------------------------------------------------------- -----****
That's why I tried (and failed :>) with this: if (/(\w+:?\s*\w*:?)+(.*?\*+\s*-+\s*\*+\s*)$/) { s/$2//; }
I hope that helps.
Hopefully the above might give you some fresh ideas.
James
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