Re: separating two sententences

One thing that's not doing what you want is the if(/("/w+/")/){ line. Let's analyze it.

#    if. Nothing weird yet.
#    |
#    |   Okay. A regex. But where's the ")"?
#    |    |
#    |    |    What's this? ;)
#    |    |     |
#    |    |     |    End of condition part.
#    |    |     |     |
#    |    |     |     |  A random slash
#    |    |     |     |   |
#    |    |     |     |   |  A random closing paren.
#    |    |     |     |   |  |
     if( /("/   w+/"  )   /  ) {
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What are those inner slashes doing there anyway?

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Re^2: separating two sententences by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2011 at 04:30 UTC
yes, you are right.i changed it to this but still nothing `#!/usr/bin/perl -w open IN,"<","file" or die "error opening file: $!"; while(<IN>){ if(/"$\w+$"\/){ print "$1\n"; }}` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: separating two sententences by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Sep 16, 2011 at 04:45 UTC
`/"$\w+$"\/` [download] In this regex, the '(' and ')' (parenthesis) characters, which would normally be regex metacharacters marking the start and end of a capture group, are escaped by \ (backslash) characters that return them to being literal '(' and ')' characters. Again, see muba's analysis above Update: ...and reply below. (Missed that last \. Bad case of backslashitis.).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: separating two sententences by muba (Priest) on Sep 16, 2011 at 05:02 UTC
Not to mention the backslash that escapes the forward slash that's supposed to mark the end of the regex. `/...\/` should read `/.../`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: separating two sententences by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Sep 16, 2011 at 14:01 UTC
You need to reread dreadpiratepeter's node again: Re^5: separating two sententences. Your input file just needs a split on the semicolon to get the two columns, then a regular expression to remove the quotes. Print those out separated by a comma or tab, and then Excel will read the file	[reply]