Simple regex needed

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Re: Simple regex needed by fruiture (Curate) on Mar 20, 2003 at 19:58 UTC
`m/(\d)/` [download] SCNR. Read perlre or define things more descriptively ;) -- http://fruiture.de	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Simple regex needed by pg (Canon) on Mar 20, 2003 at 20:24 UTC
He didn't specify whether the number is single digit, so this would be more safe: `/(\d+)/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Simple regex needed by Anonymous Monk on Mar 20, 2003 at 20:29 UTC
I also forgot to mention that there are other numbers in the file. So I need to look through the file and key my hash by using the number from the format I posted earlier.	[reply]
Re: Simple regex needed by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2003 at 21:14 UTC
Maybe? `my $frameNo = $1 if $line =~ m[^- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frame (\d+) - +- -$];` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks. 1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible 3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Simple regex needed by awkmonk (Monk) on Mar 21, 2003 at 09:12 UTC
You could try this: `$line = "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Frame 123 - - -"; $line =~ /^[- ]+Frame +(\d+)[ -]+/; print $1;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Simple regex needed by Vorlin (Beadle) on Mar 20, 2003 at 22:08 UTC
Without looking too much into it, a fast Q&D would be as follows: `# Test line $line = "------------------- Frame 1 ------"; # Parse it by changing all -, letters, and spaces into nothing $line =~ s/[\-\|A-Z\|a-z\|\s+]//g; # Print the line which returns '1' or whatever number it might be print "$line\n";` [download] Hope this helps! There's more extravagant ways to do it but that works effectively to solve your situation.	[reply] [d/l]