From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have slightly a tricky situation, in my large program. I am trying
> the best to reproduce it
>
>
> I have a string like this
> $x='a{1}b{21}c{5}d';
> # The numbers in the {} are random and are not of interest
>
> I want to access all elements from the string 'a' 'b' 'c' & 'd'
> How do I do it best ?
>
> I am now doing this
>
> $x .='{0}'; # So that the next regex works
>
> while($x=~/(.+?)\{\d+\}/){
> print $1;
> ...
> }
If you are only interested in the letters you may do this:
while ($x =~ /([a-zA-Z]+)/g {
print $1;
...
}
Jenda
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