Re: split question

This will do what you want:

my $string = '"Foo, Bar", "", "Blah"';
my @elements = $string =~ /"(.*?)"/g;
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Re^2: split question by johngg (Canon) on May 29, 2008 at 23:06 UTC
Another way to do this would be to use a regex that avoids non-greedy matching by employing a negated character class, ie `"([^"])"` captures zero or more non-double quotes that are surrounded by double quotes. `$ perl -le ' > $s = q{"Foo, Bar", "", "Blah"}; > @e = $s =~ m{"([^"])"}g; > print for @e;' Foo, Bar Blah $` [download] I hope this is of interest. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: split question by Anonymous Monk on May 29, 2008 at 22:45 UTC
thanks for both answers!	[reply]