Re^2: RegEx Perl Newbie Question

(I'd link to it, but Perlmonks' link syntax does not play nicely with fragments that contain square brackets.)

Here’s what I do: copy-and-paste the link from the browser’s address bar:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5
+d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f
[download]

apply a few edits:

[doc://perlfaq4#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5d-delimited-string-exc
+ept-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f]
[download]

and voilà: How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside [character]?

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

Comment on Re^2: RegEx Perl Newbie Question Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^3: RegEx Perl Newbie Question (pmbk)
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2014 at 05:24 UTC

and voilà: broken link

"doc://" is peculiar, see Re: how to do perldoc links with special characters (perlmonks faq2doclink.pl)

I use pmbk all the time

Read more... (12 kB)

This is what it alerts :)

[href://http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcha
+racter%5d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f|perl
+faq4 - perldoc.perl.org]
[download]

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]

Re^4: RegEx Perl Newbie Question (pmbk)

by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Aug 19, 2014 at 06:48 UTC

Well, it works fine for me in Google Chrome, so I didn’t think to test it in other browsers. :-(

Works fine also in Internet Explorer 11, but in Firefox 31.0 it just takes me to perlfaq4. I’m not sure if that qualifies as a broken link, so I’m guessing you are using yet another browser?

Thanks for the link. I don’t know what “pmbk” refers to (and Messrs. Google and Super Search have left me none the wiser).

Update: Corion suggests “pmbk” may mean “PerlMonks bookmark”, referring to the JavaScript snippet. Makes sense.

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

[reply]

Re^5: RegEx Perl Newbie Question (doc:// )

by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2014 at 08:06 UTC

Like I said, doc:// is peculiar, it spits out <p>and <i>voilà:</i>  <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%255bcharacter%255d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%255bcharacter%255d%253f">How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside [character]?</a></p>

Where as you typed

<p>and <i>voil&agrave;:</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;[doc://perlfaq4#How-can-I-split
+-a-%5bcharacter%5d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5
+d%3f]</p>
[download]

So its a quirk of doc://, probably why I avoid doc://

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]

Re^3: RegEx Perl Newbie Question
by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Aug 19, 2014 at 07:40 UTC

Neat, thanks! I'd tried the HTML entities the Monastery usually requires for literal square brackets (which did not work), but for some reason I'd not thought of using percent-encoding. Another trick learned! (And who says you can't teach an old pony new tricks?)

[reply]