I figured out this trick (or actually a variant) just by lots of trial and error with regexs in my early perl days. I prefer using parentheses rather than array subscripts, eg:

($relative_url) = ($string =~ /content(.*)/);

A _very_ useful version of this trick is with DBI, ie:

$getStuff = $dbh->prepare("select id, price, info from mytable");
$getStuff->execute();
($id, $price, $info) = $getStuff->fetchrow_array();
I use this a ton.

-- Kirby

Tuxtops: Laptops with Linux!

In reply to RE: RE: Re: regexp to return rest of string by kirbyk
in thread regexp to return rest of string by princepawn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.