OK, seeing as I am 57 in a few months, looks like a lot of people are protecting me ;)

Here follows 2 examples of the junk I need to format:

SWA vs CHE GK
WBA @ BOU GK

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That is easy to parse and render clean, as all I need is to extract is "SWA,GK" or "WBA,GK" in that example:

   $line =~ s/ vs ... /,/;
   $line =~ s/ \@ ... /,/;

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Now, the 'vs' and '@' are (seem) randomly dispersed ~ whether that is a product of the newspapers website database or crappy programming, I don't know.

But this week, this appeared in about 50 places over 4000 lines:

EVE GK

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OK, my code failed on this. I could see what has happened, but couldn't fix it at work. If I did have a debug option to pass over a new regex, I could send a '$line =~ s/ GK/,GK/;' which would have fixed it up until I got home (as it was, I frigged around in a spreadsheet to correct it to keep the wolves at bay).

Nick

In reply to Re^3: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form [EXAMPLE DATA] by Linicks
in thread Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks

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