finding data in a string

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

how do you get all the characters between two words for example

$string = "stuff, Hello the name of this site is perlmonks.org, goodby
+e, stuff"
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how could i asign all the characters between "Hello" and "goodbye" to $data so that

$data = " the name of this site is perlmonks.org, "
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Re: finding data in a string by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 21, 2001 at 01:54 UTC
That one is easy.... use a regex: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict my $string = "stuff, Hello the name of this site is perlmonks.org, goo +dbye, stuff"; my ($newstring) = ($string =~ /Hello(.*?)goodbye/); print "'$newstring'\n";` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]
Re: finding data in a string by dga (Hermit) on Aug 21, 2001 at 01:55 UTC
`$string = "stuff, Hello the name of this site is perlmonks.org, goodby +e, stuff"; ($data) = $string =~ /Hello(.)goodbye/; print "$data\n";` [download] Update:* Some people can type really fast :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: finding data in a string by maddfisherman (Sexton) on Aug 21, 2001 at 02:25 UTC
what if its like this `$string = "stuff, Hello the name of this site is perlmonks.org, goodby +e./n stuff Hello my name is bob, goodbye."` [download] how could i make it so that it gets both strings between Hello and goodbye `@newarray = (" the name of this site is perlmonks.org, ", " my name is + bob, ")` [download] does the /n return make a difference	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: finding data in a string by I0 (Priest) on Aug 21, 2001 at 03:14 UTC
`@newarray = $string =~ /Hello(.*?)goodbye/g`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: finding data in a string by E-Bitch (Pilgrim) on Aug 21, 2001 at 02:37 UTC
I think I can tame this one... use the split function: my @newarray = split (/Hello/$string); (man I hope that syntax is right... looked it up though, so it should be fine.) _________________________________________ E-Bitch Tempora Mutantur Nos et Mutamur in Illis "The Times are Changed Even as We are Changed in Them"	[reply]