Re: Parsing with Regular Expressions

Additionally, you might want to look at using .*? instead of .*, depending on the string you're handling.

Another option to parsing might be doing something like:

sub parse_error($)
{
    my $error = shift;

    my $values = $error =~ /\[([^\]]*)\]/;

    my %values;
    foreach my $param (split /,/, $values)
    {
        my ($k, $v) = split /=/, $param;
        $values{$k} = $v;
    }

    return %values;
}
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Re^2: Parsing with Regular Expressions by idsfa (Vicar) on Nov 17, 2004 at 16:45 UTC
Or better yet, use `([^,]+)` (see Death to Dot Star!). `m/REFDATA_ERROR\[ type=([^,]+), system=([^,]+), category=([^,]+), code=([^\]]+) \]/x; # The /x added for readability` [download] The intelligent reader will judge for himself. Without examining the facts fully and fairly, there is no way of knowing whether vox populi is really vox dei, or merely vox asinorum. -- Cyrus H. Gordon	[reply] [d/l] [select]