Re^2: can't use unpack or split??

Limbic~Region

I'm afraid I dont understand how the '.*' will capture a space within the second column, seeing it's followed by a '\s+'?

Another thing, that had just occured to me:

The letter present in the third column is identical to one of the letters(first or second) in the second column.

So if I checked that, I'd know if a space turned up in the wrong place, because the letters don't check out right?

Sam

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Re^3: can't use unpack or split?? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2004 at 20:26 UTC
seaver, I'm afraid I dont understand how the '.' will capture a space within the second column, seeing it's followed by a '\s+'?* So you ran the code, saw that it works, but didn't know why. I would suggest perldoc perlre or perhaps The Owl Book. It works because I have anchored it at both ends ^ and $ and forced the other spaces where appropriate. Since general use of .* is frowned upon, I have modified it after reading your more constraining information here. Cheers - L~R	[reply]

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Re^3: can't use unpack or split??
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2004 at 20:26 UTC

seaver

I'm afraid I dont understand how the '.*' will capture a space within the second column, seeing it's followed by a '\s+'?

So you ran the code, saw that it works, but didn't know why.

I would suggest perldoc perlre or perhaps The Owl Book. It works because I have anchored it at both ends ^ and $ and forced the other spaces where appropriate. Since general use of .* is frowned upon, I have modified it after reading your more constraining information here.

Cheers - L~R

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