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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Perl] split on : but with extra challenge Post 302968911 by ejdv on Wednesday 16th of March 2016 06:42:28 AM
Old 03-16-2016
Thanks a lot.
Works like a charm.
So the lesson is to substitute the colons that are in the way and later on to substitue them back again.

---------- Post updated at 10:30 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:18 AM ----------

One additional question:

What if the number of values found within {} is variable ?

For example:

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b}";

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b:value6c}";

$Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b:value6c:value6d}";

my $Line = "value1:{value2a:value2b}:value3:{}:value5:{value6a:value6b}";

For the moment I am only interested in the value of $TotalLineAttributes.
No need to retrieve the actual attributes.

---------- Post updated at 11:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:30 AM ----------

I will use this until something better comes along:

$Line =~ s/{(.*?)}/XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx/g;
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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