On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Capacio, Paula J wrote:
I am using $1 and $2 to retain data from a matched regular expression.
I expect $1 to contain the KEY ID and $2 to contain USER NAME, but $2 is
missing the last character. See the code and results below.
(watch out for text line wrapping)
Thanks
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:43, Capacio, Paula J wrote:
Thanks Bill, Rob and David! I didn't pickup on $1 getting too much of
the match. I guess the lesson there is when printing the results, I
should have delimited them with either words or characters, (like you
did) then I would've noticed it.
Adam Ingerman wrote:
when debugging, I tend to be more direct in variable checking, this might be
evern better for you (add another \n if it's liable to be a long line, and
change the ' to another character if need be)
print \$1\t'$1'\n\$2\t'$2'\n\$3\t'$3'\n;
sure, it doesn't look much
Capacio, Paula J wrote:
I am using $1 and $2 to retain data from a matched regular expression.
I expect $1 to contain the KEY ID and $2 to contain USER NAME, but $2
Pauls, If you put a slash between $1 and $2, you will find out that it is not
doing what you think. You will find that $1
Thanks Bill, Rob and David! I didn't pickup on $1 getting too much of
the match. I guess the lesson there is when printing the results, I
should have delimited them with either words or characters, (like you
did) then I would've noticed it.
print Expression matched and retained: $1 and $2\n;
