in reply to regular expression for the address
Explanation can be obtained vie YAPE::Regex::Explain:my ($value) = $var =~ /\(([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\),[0-9]+$/;
Note that your line is not valid, because it contains unescaped double quotes inside themselves.The regular expression: (?-imsx:\(([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\),[0-9]+$) matches as follows: NODE EXPLANATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive) (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not matching \n) (matching whitespace and # normally): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \( '(' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ( group and capture to \1: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [0-9]+ any character of: '0' to '9' (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \. '.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [0-9]+ any character of: '0' to '9' (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of \1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \) ')' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- , ',' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [0-9]+ any character of: '0' to '9' (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ before an optional \n, and the end of the string ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of grouping ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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