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RE: searching for a @ (newbie)

At 02:08 AM 16/11/00, you wrote: >Perl regexes are usually "greedy," meaning that if you give it a gobble >character (like + or *), it will keep going as far as it can. > >Try replacing >elsif ($_ = ~/\@=".*"/) > >...with this: >elsif ($_ = ~/\@=".*?"/) > >In this context, the question mark shou

searching for a @ (newbie)

Hi, I'm writing a script that reads a .reg file and creates a file with the Installshield functions needed to write the registry entries from the .reg file. I have come across a problem looking for the @ sign. If I use ($_ = ~/\@=".*"/) or ($_ = ~/@=".*"/) - in an if statement it picks up every l