On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Perl hackers -- Figured someone would have a reasonably quick, easy answer
> for this:
>
> I am trying to read through a file, line-by-line, and I want to extract
> the text in between the [ and ] characters.
This is a job for......capturing parens!!!
Try this:
if ($_=~/\[(.+)\]/) {
$var=$1;
}
$1 would be the string matched by the regex between ( and )
Fer
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