Hi,

It's my first time playing with Text::Balanced module. From the code below (a quick test script I wrote..), shouldn't $next contain '#name#' after the call to extract_delimited() sub?

As of now, the subroutine simply sets $@ indicating this: "Not a delimited pattern, detected at offset 0".

My thinking was that the extract_delimited() sub would pull out 'first' delimited substring inside a given larger string. This is not the case, however ;-). So, for that matter, how do I do it using this module? I'm not sure which one of the imported methods I should use to achive the desired result (say, pull out next '#' delimited substring). 
use Text::Balanced qw (
                        extract_delimited
                        extract_bracketed
                        extract_quotelike
                        extract_codeblock
                        extract_variable
                        extract_tagged
                        extract_multiple
                        gen_delimited_pat
                        gen_extract_tagged
                       );

my $source = 'Hello World, #name#!';
my ($cfml_expr_match, $next);

#eval {
    $cfml_expr_match = gen_delimited_pat(q{#},q{#});
    $next = extract_delimited($source, '#', '', '#');
#};

if ($@) {
    print "Hmm.. got this: $@\n";
}

# some code here...

print "\n";

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Note: I've uncommented eval{...} since it would clear the $@ variable, therefore, not letting me to check on the status of a call to a Text::Balanced method. Any idea why this is a case? Sorry for yet another loosely related question ;-).

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Edit kudra, 2002-01-10 Changed Delimited to Balanced in title per ntc request

In reply to using Text::Balanced... by vladb

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