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Re^3: regular expression ignores two lines

by Crackers2 (Parson)
on Aug 20, 2009 at 12:48 UTC ( [id://790084]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: regular expression ignores two lines
in thread regular expression ignores two lines

Because your regex is anchored to the start and end of the string, so it'll only find a tag that's on a line by itself:

if (/^\{(.*)\}$/) { $tag = $1; print "The tag is $tag\n"; }

Your {TTL} and {LINE} tags are in the middle of the line, so they won't get picked up by the regex.

You could try something like this instead:

while (/\{(.*?)\}/g) { $tag = $1; print "The tag is $tag\n"; }

Output:

The tag is SOURCETAG The tag is DATE The tag is EDITION The tag is HEADLINE The tag is SOURCE The tag is LINE The tag is TTL

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