Show us the code that you have tried so far. Which parts of the line can change and which parts stay the same?

You could consider using a regex (see perlretut) along these lines:

my ($part1, $part2, $part3, $part4) = $line =~ /"some text \((.*?)\) more text (.*?) and dst text (.*?) -flag (.*?)"/;

which would match "some text (6's and 7's) more text fred and dst text joe -flag /tmp/filename" and would set the variables as:

$part1 = 6's and 7's
$part2 = fred 
$part3 = joe 
$part4 = /tmp/filename

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You will need to adjust the example for your particular problem, but the essence is there.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: How to escape parens for grep by GrandFather
in thread How to escape parens for grep by swaroop

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