I have been messing around with irc connections and parsing data however I have run into a problem that I am not sure regexp can take care of. The problem is that most text on irc channels have text coloring/formatting which comes through the socket as some binary data represented by a heart then the number of the corresponding color, ie 5, 14, 12, etc..

Currently I have the following: 

$filename =~ s/.*?[^\w\.\-\_]+\d+//g;

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this removes all binary formatting data and any text NOT part of the filename. However if the filename begins with integer values then they get cut off for obvious reasons.

A common string would look something like:
[]14APPS []7Some.filename.here.tar
I want to grab only the filename and remove the rest. I run into issues when the string is something like this:
[]14APPS []750_cent_album.tar

In situations like this the 50 gets stripped off also. Is there a better way of doing this?


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In reply to Remove text formatting from raw irc socket data? by Elijah

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