in reply to Regular Expression Assistance

Well, a quick solution to this could be

$_ =~ /(\/home\/monks\/thanksforhelping\d+\.ext)/

However there are some points that I would like to make:

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Re: Re: Regular Expression Assistance
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2002 at 12:55 UTC
    This is what I thought it should look like. Unfortunately, when I tested it, I also got stuff that was on the same line as the path I wanted, but was not part of the path itself. For instance, I got:

    but you might try looking at /home/monks/thanksforhelping1234567890.ext for help

    Any suggestions on how to get rid of the excess stuff?
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      I don't really know what is happening at your end, but this seems

      $_ = "but you might try looking at /home/monks/thanksforhelping1234567
+890.ext for help";
$_ =~ /(\/home\/monks\/thanksforhelping\d+\.ext)/;
print $1;

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      to output:

      /home/monks/thanksforhelping1234567890.ext

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      So check for typos... that could be your problem

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