Re: regex needed: Capture a single entity from two discontiguous parts.

my $number = $1 if $string =~ m/\(([\d,]+)\)/; 
   $number =~ s/,//g;  # how I would approach the problem...
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It doesn't seem like a terribly complicated problem as is, but I do wonder if there's a good way to capture the digits in $string if there are an unknown number of commas — without needing to have a second regex.

-Paul

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Re^2: regex needed: Capture a single entity from two discontiguous parts. by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2006 at 16:03 UTC
That's what I was currently doing. I just hoped I could do it in the regex, no big deal I guess. Thanks	[reply]