Re^2: Parsing a string

Really nice :) Thanks - it's a wonderul solution and its module independent; I don't have the mentioned module in my webserver (do you believe that???) Kind regards, Kepler

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Re^3: Parsing a string by samarzone (Pilgrim) on Feb 23, 2011 at 07:17 UTC
Be aware that the given regular expression has a chance to be broken in some circumstances. Example: `$s = q[ci,14938340,2,"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC",34.6953, +-118.5350,2.2,17.40, 9,"Southern California, \"US\""]; print for $s =~ m[("[^"]+"\|[^,]+)(?:,\|$)]g;` [download] Output `ci 14938340 2 "Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC" 34.6953 -118.5350 2.2 17.40 9 "Southern California \"US\""` [download] -- Regards - Samar	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Parsing a string
by samarzone (Pilgrim) on Feb 23, 2011 at 07:17 UTC

Be aware that the given regular expression has a chance to be broken in some circumstances.

Example:

$s = q[ci,14938340,2,"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC",34.6953,
+-118.5350,2.2,17.40, 9,"Southern California, \"US\""];
print for $s =~ m[("[^"]+"|[^,]+)(?:,|$)]g;
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Output

ci
14938340
2
"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC"
34.6953
-118.5350
2.2
17.40
 9
"Southern California
 \"US\""
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Regards
- Samar

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