The following does the job with a single regex (well, almost), but is perhaps a bit too cute to live in production code:
>perl -wMstrict -le
"for my $String (@ARGV) {
my ($Site_Code, @RS) =
grep defined,
$String =~ m{ \A (...) .{4} | \G (\d) }xmsg
;
local $\" = q{' '};
print qq{site code: '$Site_Code' digits: '@RS'};
}
"
uk1sxve01205.gfjgjf5.fdhd5 usasxve513.gfdhf4.hgfd4
site code: 'uk1' digits: '0' '1' '2' '0' '5'
site code: 'usa' digits: '5' '1' '3'
As you will see if you eliminate the
grep statement, the regex produces a rain of undefined elements.
I think I would prefer an approach more in line with those given in other replies:
-
Extract the decimal digits as a single string. This allows you to be very specific about what you want.
- If you are interested in the individual digit characters, split the string of digits to an array to get them.
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