Hi Perl Monks,

I have a string which can take of 2 forms which I have mentioned below, which is part of the code 

$def1 = "!defined(FLOAT_CODE)";
$def2 = "defined(FIXED_CODE)";

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The string can be either of 2 forms and I need to split in the first case like

! FLOAT_CODE

and in the second case like

FIXED_CODE

but a single statement has to do it, I do not want 2 separate case for each one. Below is my perl code with different variant I have tried.

Variant:1 

 
m/^(!defined|defined)\((.*?)\)$/;
print "$1----$2\n";

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This gives me like 
 
output case1: !defined----FLOAT_CODE 
output case2: defined----FIXED_CODE

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Variant 2: 
m/^(\!|defined)(.*?)$/;
print "$1----$2\n";

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output case1: !----defined(FLOAT_CODE)
output case2: defined----(FIXED_CODE)

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But both are not helping me in solving the issue can you please help in solving this or any other method avaliable.

Regards,

-Prassi

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