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After a couple of tweaks, a modified regex could be used like so -
There are many components in the regex that don't really help in matching the posted data. Maybe you are using the regex elsewhere, or maybe your data is much more diverse. If that's not the case, you could use a simpler regex that matches just the posted data. Secondly, the parentheses seem redundant here, unless you are using the captured groups.
Keeping these two points in mind, a shorter regex is as follows:
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Hi all,
I am trying to match a multi line string and return the matching string in one line. Here is the perl code that I wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $str='<title>My
title</title>';
if ($str =~ /(<title>)(+)(<\/title>)/ ){
print "$2\n";
}
It returns :
My
title
I want the... (3 Replies)
letz say that my file has 7 records with only one field. So my file has:
11111111
000000000000000
1111
aaaabbbccc
1111111222000000
aaaaaaaa
zz
All i need is:
1. when the field has a repetition of the same instance(a-z or 0-9), i would consideer it to be invalid.... (1 Reply)
Dear all,
I have a simple issue on a perl regular expression. I want to get the characters in red from the next lines :
POWER_key
LEFT_key
RIGHT_key
OK_key
DOWN_key
and so on...
Thanks in advance for reply.
Ludo (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am looking for a Perl regular expression to match the below pattern of a java script file.
var so = object.device.load('camera','value');
I want to grep out such lines present in the *.js files. The conditions are:
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b) always the... (3 Replies)
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Could you help me with this please. This regular expression seems to match for the wrong input
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $inputtext = "W1a$%XXX";
if($inputtext =~ m/+X+/)
{
print "matches\n";
}
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I am completely new to perl programming. My father is helping me learn said programming language. However, I am stuck on one of the assignments he has given me, and I can't find very much help with it via google, either because I have a tiny attention span, or because I can be very very dense.
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Hi I am doing something basic like...
if ($stringvariable =~ /have not typed/)
I have a little problem because the 'not' in the expression gets highlighted as a kind of a '!'..what am I supposed to do in this situation?
Thank you
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Hi all,
How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files.
open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat";
open NEW_DESTINATION_FILE, ">new_tmptravl.dat" or die "new_tmptravl.dat";
while (<DESTINATION_FILE>)
{
# print... (1 Reply)