Hi Monks,

A simple little questions if I may:

I would like to parse an SQL string to find the alias names used.

Since alias names are (in my SQL atleast) in the form of 'clients as c, staff as s' it is easy enough to split on ' as ' and find the next word and push it into a list so I end up with 'a' and 's' as two elements of a @list.

My question is, can this be done as a one-liner without having to build one list then loop through that building the final list?

Thanks, 

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In reply to Simple little regex to build a list by wolis

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