Perl Extract String

xlynx3 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

Hi,
I have a string like

"something is good wanted (bla bla)"

I need to get the world "wanted" from this string and "assign it to a variable".. but it's not a static word so i want to get that word by searching the pattern as follows

<space>desiredword<space>(

and i tried to get that word by

Code:

$string =~ m/\s.*?\s\(/gi;

How can i do this?

Many thanks in advance..

vidyadhar85 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

only two space before and after desired word is not enough if its static..

xlynx3 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

actually the pattern is constant but word length can be changed

space - word - space - (

is a fix pattern..

vidyadhar85 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

hmmm this sed pattern may help

Code:

sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\) (\(.*\)/\2/g' filename

xlynx3 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

thanks for your solution. I'll try it ASAP..

KevinADC · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009

perl:

Code:

$string = 'something is good wanted (bla bla)';
my ($match) = $string =~ /\s(\w+)\s\(/;
print $match;

zilux · #7 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Code:

my $s = "something is good wanted (bla bla)";
if ( $s =~ /^.*\s(.*)\s\(/ ) {
    print "$1";
}

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