Re: How do I extract the data that comes after a certain word?

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Why use Perl $POSTMATCH or $'. when you can easily do like so:

  my $string='hello I went to the store yesterday and the day after an
+d the day after';
          if($string=~m/.+?(yesterday.+?after).+?$/i){
               print 'Summary: ',$1,$/;  ## print yesterday and the da
+y after
           }
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Please check the following for some details.
perldoc -v $`
perldoc -v $&
perldoc -v $'

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Re^2: How do I extract the data that comes after a certain word? by MiriamH (Novice) on Jun 19, 2012 at 14:58 UTC
Whenever I try to modify this script to work for a much larger string, nothing happens. I think its because the words "Summary" and "Description" (Which is what I'm scraping between in my real script) keep on repeating. Is there a way to write it as a foreach loop to make it keep going through the script and writing everything it seems between the words "summary" and "description" every time its written??	[reply]

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Re^2: How do I extract the data that comes after a certain word?
by MiriamH (Novice) on Jun 19, 2012 at 14:58 UTC

Whenever I try to modify this script to work for a much larger string, nothing happens. I think its because the words "Summary" and "Description" (Which is what I'm scraping between in my real script) keep on repeating. Is there a way to write it as a foreach loop to make it keep going through the script and writing everything it seems between the words "summary" and "description" every time its written??

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