Re: remove specific data from a line

So you wanna remove the string if it start with myword? Try this:

if $line =~ /^myword.*$/ {
     $line =~ s/$&//g
    }
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Updated. Oh I see you need to remove the line until the last option. Heres the code:

if $line =~ /(^myword.*option\d+\s+).*$/ {
     $line =~ s/$1//g
    }
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Re^2: remove specific data from a line by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2006 at 15:36 UTC
I not explain too good sorry. Let me try eloborate. String could look like this `abc123 qwerty,asdfg,zxcvb yuio jklh` [download] or like this `abc987 qwerty yuio jklh` [download] or this `abcefgh qwerty, asdfg yuio jklh` [download] So I want to end up with same string from all examples above. It should end up like this `yuio jklh` [download] Hope this make it bit clearer, sorry for confuse my english not so good	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: remove specific data from a line by graff (Chancellor) on Feb 03, 2006 at 03:17 UTC
Given those examples, there might be a few ways to do this -- either try to match from the start of the string: `s/abc\w+\s+\w+(?:, \w+)\s+//; # match and remove unwanted initial co +ntent` [download] or else just look for what you want to keep at the end: `s/.\s(\w+\s+\w+)$/$1/; # match desired end content and remove everyt +hing before it` [download] And of course, if you know in advance how those last two tokens are spelled, you could even use rindex() and substr(): `$_ = substr( $_, rindex( $_, 'yuio jklh' ));` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: remove specific data from a line by Anonymous Monk on Feb 03, 2006 at 10:06 UTC
Thank for answer but not quite what I look for. This `s/abc\w+\s+\w+(?:, *\w+)\s+//;` only work correct on last line of my example. I'm not able to use second or third option you supply because I do not know what end of line hold only what beginning of line look like. See my reponse to Roy Johnson. Thanks	[reply] [d/l]


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