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String extract 2

by kepler (Scribe)
on Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55 UTC ( [id://1094887]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

kepler has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I'm having some troubles to extract an expresiion from a $line. The type of expression is, for example:
KP_what_I_want (space) or KP_what_I_want( or KP_what_I_want ( or KP_what_I_want + etc...
I'm using:
my ($exp) = $line =~ m/ KP_ # Required (.*) # Capture Desired Output (?:\s)? # Optional - Do not capture (?:\()? # Optional - Do not capture /xi;
It's not working... it extracts the all expression ( without the KP_) Any ideas? Thanks, Kepler

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Re: String extract 2
by farang (Chaplain) on Jul 24, 2014 at 12:35 UTC

    You can use a negated character class to match up until the included chars in the class are found.

    #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; my @test_cases = ( 'KP_what_I_want(but_not_this', 'KP_what_I_want nor_this', 'KP_ nor_any_of_this', 'and this will not match', ); for my $line (@test_cases) { my ($exp) = $line =~ m/ KP_ # Required. ( [^ (]* ) # Capture until space # or left paren. /xi; if (defined $exp) {say "<$exp>"} else {say 'NO MATCH'}; } __END__ <what_I_want> <what_I_want> <> NO MATCH

Re: String extract 2
by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Jul 24, 2014 at 12:03 UTC

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