Re: How to cater a self defined escape char in regex ?

Hi there,

Have a feeling there is more to the story that what you've revealed in your question. You didn't give us any working code, or even an idea about what "$obj" may be. But the obvious question is, why not just remove the '(' and ')' from $who before proceeding?

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Re^2: How to cater a self defined escape char in regex ? by exilepanda (Friar) on Apr 08, 2013 at 17:08 UTC
Thanks Loops, this is really a rephrased snip story, which I think to post the whole story only even making what I want to ask become more ambiguous. However, this is a good lesson learned for how to ask more properly. If there's a second go, I'd ask my question in this way. `$str = '#{XX(' . $unknownString . ')}#';` [download] Then how do I write an regex to get `$1 eq $unknownString` from `$str`? Provided the `$str` was actually reading from a random text file, so I cannot pre-modify it before I run the regex.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: How to cater a self defined escape char in regex ?
by exilepanda (Friar) on Apr 08, 2013 at 17:08 UTC

If there's a second go, I'd ask my question in this way.

$str = '#{XX(' . $unknownString . ')}#';
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Then how do I write an regex to get $1 eq $unknownString from $str? Provided the $str was actually reading from a random text file, so I cannot pre-modify it before I run the regex.

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