well i tried that, but it matched for some reason the beginning of the paragraph to the first newline char.
say for instance i have:
firstline
secondline
data_hereDATA
the pattern "data_here" goes into $temp, and $needed_data is actually "DATA";
if i wanted "DATA" but didnt know "DATA" was going to be "DATA" and could have been "abc" or "a1dhiud76", the regex i posted above (which i will need to go back and explain further in detail now that i think about it) will match everything AFTER "data_here" until new line char... which returns "DATA" or any other values/characters to $needed_data. im trying to do that without having to spend that extra variable.
the solution given earlier wont work for some reason tho undef does.
correction what corion said did indeed work. i was still trying to split for some reason. after removing the "split" from the function it works. thanks | [reply] |
I'm sorry, but without seeing your code, and your data, the output you get and the output you want, I can't really help you there.
Maybe you can explain things better if you post real, runnable code and data for that program, because for me, the following just works as I imagine it should:
#!perl -w
use strict;
my $data= <<EOM;
firstline
secondline
data_hereDATA THAT IS CAPTURED
EOM
$_= $data;
my($result)= /^data_here(.+)/m;
print $result; # DATA THAT IS CAPTURED
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ah ok, i see now. for some reason when i use "split(/^any_pattern(.+)/m)" it fails, btu when doing it like you showed it worked flawless. thanks. i will update the post in cool uses for perl
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