That seems to work, despite the fact I was under the impression that the first .* would gobble up the entire line, being greedy and all.

Also, I guess I should have said I'm attempting to avoid .* ... learning experience, I guess. but, yes, this seems like a much more elegant solution then the one I had written by far.

I'm still trying to figure out why the .* doesn't grab the entire line ... because of the second .*, I guess?

And, I'm going to see if I can find rindex in the perldocs because, frankly, I've never seen/heard of it before. :)

- Erik
theAcolyte

ps. I know there are log parsers on CPAN, but I'm just mucking around ... i have a full script doing what I want and working just fine ... but I noticed how ugly my regEx was and wanted to see how to improve on it :)

In reply to Re: Re: Is there a better way to write this RegEx? by theAcolyte
in thread Is there a better way to write this RegEx? by theAcolyte

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