RE: Re: Removing a text element from the middle of a string

You went against your mantra of "down with .*" here... why not advocate using /(Version[^,]*),/ here?

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Oops, sorry Ovid. I saw it in his favorite nodes list, and thought it was his. Good rant from you. :)

$_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval

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(Ovid) RE(2): Removing a text element from the middle of a string by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 30, 2000 at 09:11 UTC
While I will confess that I noticed that merlyn has Death to Dot Star! listed (on his home node) as one of his favorite nodes, I'm actually the one who wrote that and I occassionally get friendly grief from fellow monks for using it. :) (Though if merlyn rants against ., I'd be interested in seeing the link) Incidentally, I'd write the regex as follows (assuming that the data is very clean): `my $result = $1 if $string =~ /,\s([^,]+)/;` [download] Cheers, Ovid Update:* japhy, it's an easy mistake to make. I just feel proud to have made the list :) Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just go the the link and check out our stats.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: Re: Removing a text element from the middle of a string by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 30, 2000 at 21:51 UTC
Or: `/(Version.?),/` [download] Note - Depending on the data this may or may not perform worse than the previously suggested `/(Version[^,]*,/` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]