putting regex results into an array. (boo)

your regex works (you can verify this by looking at the contents of $1), but you're not putting it into @template correctly.

try this syntax, which forces the results of the regex into the proper context through the use of the outermost set of parens : @template = ($xtemplate =~ /(.*?)filename.ext\*{4}/s);

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Re: putting regex results into an array. (boo) by apprentice (Scribe) on Aug 24, 2001 at 00:24 UTC
1 - Yes, the regex works fine, but so does all of the code. I.e., I see nothing wrong with the context, but maybe I'm not grokking something. I threw parentheses around the {4}filename.ext{4} portion of the regex and it was stored in the array properly, too. 2 - Perhaps maddfisherman was looking in $template1 instead of $template[0] ? apprentice	[reply]
Re: Re: putting regex results into an array. (boo) by apprentice (Scribe) on Aug 24, 2001 at 00:29 UTC
One thing I missed the first look, you need to escape the "@template" in the string like this "\@template" else your string, and hence the first element of @template will not have "@template". apprentice	[reply]