Re^2: grabbing chunks of text

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Re^3: grabbing chunks of text by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 10, 2010 at 18:59 UTC
`.` is too permissive. You could use a complicated trick to fix this, but it's easiest to extract the blocks then to filter out the ones you don't want. `@blocks = grep / type =/, /:\w.?(?=:\w)/sg;` [download] If you want to break the blocks at the start of the line, the following will do that for you: `@blocks = grep / type =/, /^[^:]:\w.\n(?:[^:]: .\n)*/mg;` [download] It also demonstrates how lookahead and the non-greedy modifier can be avoided here.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: grabbing chunks of text by spencerd (Novice) on Mar 10, 2010 at 19:12 UTC
This is a bit crazy and I dont understand it completly I just pieced it together from stuff people posted on chatterbox seems to work though `my @blocks = $file_contents =~ /:\w(?:(?!:\w).)?type\s=(?:(?!:\w).) +*?(?=:\w)/sg;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: grabbing chunks of text by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 10, 2010 at 19:32 UTC
This is a bit crazy and I dont understand it completly That's the complicated trick I mentioned. I don't see any advantage to doing it this way.	[reply]