radhika wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to parse this string: 2005-03-11 13:49:41.19
> to just get the hour and minute.
>
> my program has:
>
> if( $string = /([\d]+)-([\d]+)-([\d]+)\s([\d\d):(\d\d):(\w+)/ )
> {
> print("Hour:Minute = $4:$5\n");
> }
I doubt that you are running under strict and warnings. You need to be
and you would get your warnings and then some insight. So you don't need the
charaacter classes and you need the tilda to go with = so :
$string =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\s(\d\d):(\d\d):(\w+)/
Now it will print out.
Wags ;)
>
> This is breaking. If anyone can refine this, that would be great.
> thanks,
> radhika
>
>
>
>
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