[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sumit Shah) writes:
> I have a string like: 'a = 1; b = 2; c = 3; d = 4'
>
> Whats the best way to parse it so that I can get a value for c, which
> is 3? I have used the hash approach. But, I was wondering if there is
> a faster way to do it in Perl.
I don't know about `best', but the following regex works fine for me.
my $text = 'a = 1; b = 2; c = 3; d = 4';
if ($text =~ /c\s=\s(\d)/xms) {
print "Got $1!\n";
}
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