On 9/2/07, Chris E. Rempola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chas Owens wrote: > > > > The pattern /#.*\s(\S+)/ matches a literal # followed by anything up > > to a space and captures all contiguous non-space characters: > > > > "31 Aug 2007 04:00:22 GMT " prematch > > "#" matches # > > "8810118 337545 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" matches .* > > " " matches \s > > "bouncing" matches \S+ > > > > Even turning on non-greedy matching won't help, it will just cause it > > to match 337545. So we need to take a different approach. Try > > /#\d+\s+\d+\s+(\S*)/ instead. > > Thanks for the explanation Chas. The regex pattern you provided worked! > Thank you.. snip
Please note that this is just a bandaid. There are undoubtedly other valid inputs that will break. What you really need to do is find the grammar for the file you are parsing. I expect that it is in the qmail documentation somewhere. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
