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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl newbie: how to extract an unknown word from a string Post 302177667 by fpmurphy on Saturday 22nd of March 2008 10:00:50 AM
Old 03-22-2008
An easier way might be to use the split function. The following example shows you how to use the split function to extract words from a string.

Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

my $str = "The quick brown box";

my @words = split(' ', $str);

foreach my $word (@words) {
    print "$word\n";
}

print "All words: @words\n";
print "Second word: @words[1]\n";

exit 0;

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

american-english

american-english(5)						   Users' Manual					       american-english(5)

NAME

       american-english - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/american-english is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

Debian								   16 June 2003 					       american-english(5)
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