What most other posters here didn't consider is that the whole sequence is stored in a string. This string might be read in from a file but doesn't have to be, so all these while (<FILE>) {...} approaches might not work.

If the real string differs from the given example and the lines contain e.g. more 'whitespace surrounded numbers', then the regex has to be massaged accordingly. Nevertheless the general idea should still work.

In the second quote you speak of general idea; in the first you complain over that people show general ideas and don't bother about details. One could easily have included your quote but slightly modified for each other reply: "If the input is gotten/stored in any other way, then the loop construct has to be massaged accordingly. Nevertheless the general idea should still work."

Many posts here are about general ideas (and that's good). It's silly to always have to point out that if it's read from a file it should use while (...) { ... } but if it's in some form of list it should be for (...) { ... }. The idea is still that the problem is solved by looping through every sequence. How you choose to do that is up to the final implementor. Imho, the questioneer should be skilled enough to know how to read a file line by line, or how to loop through an array.

Personally I would use the same approach as you did, but that's irrelevant right now.

What's more important to note is that none of the replies that used while (...) { ... } local()ized $_!

ihb

In reply to Re: Re: Re: matching every occurrence of a regex by ihb
in thread matching every occurrence of a regex by Becky

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