> 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;
> }
>
> $1 would be the string matched by the regex between ( and )
>
Absolutely perfect!! This worked excellent:
while ($_ = <LOGFILE>) {
if ($_ =~ /$struct/ && $_ =~ /$structStart/) {
if ($_ =~ /\[(.+)\]/) {
$string = $1;
print "$string -- $struct$structStart\n";
# ... do other stuff, snipped
}
} else {
Thank-you so much!
Steve
>
>
> Fer
>
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