Dear all,

In a given string:
my $string = '...blah...<file fiop="foo" length="bar"/>baz</file>...blah...'
(where bar is an integer - if that helps)
I'd like to catch foo, bar and baz in variables; but I'd also like to end $string up
without the "<file fiop="foo" length="bar"/>baz</file>" part.

I've tried:
my ($fiop, $length, $data) = ($string =~ /\<file fiop=\"(.*)\" length=\"(.*)\"\/\>(.*)\<\/file>/);
(without success) - but that would leave me with (re-)building the given part for substringing it from $string.
Could anyone point me to the right direction to get this done

rgrds,
Walinsky

In reply to extracting a substring from a string - multiple variables by walinsky

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