Re: friday morning regex

Hints , or possibly elbow in ribs needed on parsing a Subject: header + to grab the complete string Three (I hope) Subject variations : "foo.com, bar.net, blah.org, trivial.com"; "foo.com, bar.net, blah.org & trivial.com"; "foo.com, bar.net, blah.org and trivial.com"; <SNIP CODE> prints only the first domain, much to my annoyance.
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Well $1 obviously only matches foo.com. what you want is to print $_ if you have all 4. Alternatively if you actually want the three separate (and know that there are only three) then you can with do

my ($first, $second, $third, $fourth) = (/^([\w.-]+((,\s?)|(\s&\s)|(\s
+and\s)|$))+/)
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Probably better to use split and get a list as in

my @topics = split(/(?:,|\s*&|\s*and)\s*/)
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Update: fix typos and s/3/4/; I need my coffee too!

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Edit by tye to change PRE to CODE around wide lines

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Re: Re: friday morning regex by Anonymous Monk on Nov 08, 2002 at 11:42 UTC
Split was my fallback plan, but your `/^(([\w.-]+((,\s?)\|(\s&\s)\|(\s+and\s)\|$))+)/` ..hasn't failed here yet. Where there's a will, there's a wa.. regexp :) Cheers dingus Simon, UK	[reply] [d/l]