Re^3: Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables

To make my code easier to read, I indent it by four spaces when I quote it. (That way, it doesn't get lost in the surrounding flow of text.) As a result, you'll need to unindent it (or at least the __DATA__ portion) before running it.

Try processing the script through this one liner to remove the leading four spaces:

    perl -i.bak -pe's/^    //' the-script.pl  # unindent the-script.pl
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That ought to do it.

Cheers,
Tom

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Re^4: Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables by my_perl (Initiate) on Nov 12, 2004 at 17:53 UTC
Hi, thanks again:) what would i need to change if i had spaces before these strings,number of spaces is not constant. Thanks Aida	[reply]
Re^5: Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables by tmoertel (Chaplain) on Nov 12, 2004 at 18:03 UTC
You change the regex from `m\|^ <([^>]+)> (.) </\1> \|x)` [download] to `m\|^ \s <([^>]+)> (.) </\1> \|x)` [download] The `\s` matches zero or more spaces. Cheers, Tom Tom Moertel : Blog / Talks / CPAN / LectroTest / PXSL / Coffee / Movie Rating Decoder	[reply] [d/l] [select]