Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
> Hi,
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> I have slightly a tricky situation, in my large program. I am trying the
> best to reproduce it
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> 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
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> I want to access all elements from the string 'a' 'b' 'c' & 'd'
> How do I do it best ?
Will they always be letters? if so, I would change (.+?) to ([a-z]) or
something similar (can't remember if the [] menas exclude or not, but you
get the idea).
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> I am now doing this
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> $x .='{0}'; # So that the next regex works
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> while($x=~/(.+?)\{\d+\}/){
> print $1;
> ...
> }
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> Is there a better way
> Thanks
> Ram
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