Re: Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String

in reply to Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String

Hi,

I'm not sure whether I misunderstood your question. But have you looked at function split for your purpose?

Regards
McA

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Re^2: Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String by GuiPerl (Acolyte) on Oct 01, 2014 at 19:35 UTC
This did the trick: `my ($a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h,$i) =split(/:/,$line);` [download] Thanks.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String by Solo (Deacon) on Oct 01, 2014 at 19:55 UTC
*Mapping `$a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f, $g, $h, $i` to `$count, $grade, $pos, $name, $date, $country, $age, $vacant` is left as an exercise for the reader.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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