On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Beckett Richard-qswi266 wrote: > use strict; > use warnings; > my $pat = "abcd<efgh>ijklmnop<qrst>uvwxyz"; > print "\$pat is $pat\n"; > $pat =~ /<(.*)>.*<(.*)>/; > my ($one, $two) = ($1, $2); > print "\$one is $one\n\$two is $two\n";
That does work in this case, but it's not terribly robust. If there were a third angle-bracketed substring, for instance, (or only one) this would no longer match them correctly. I'd always use one of the following: 1) $pat = /<([^>]*)>.*<([^>]*)>/; This always matches the first two angle-bracketed substrings, ignoring any others there might follow. 2) my @matches = ($pat =~ /<([^>]*)>/g); This matches any number of angle-bracketed substrings, returning them in a list. TomP > > -----Original Message----- > > pattern: abcd<efgh>ijklmnop<qrst>uvwxyz > > > > >From the above pattern, How to find the parameter $1=efgh > > and $2=qrst within <>. What is the regex to written in perl? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schrodinger, Inc. 646-366-9555 x102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
