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# 1  
Old 07-01-2009
Perl Extract String
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..
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 07-05-2009 at 11:19 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 07-01-2009
only two space before and after desired word is not enough if its static..
# 3  
Old 07-01-2009
actually the pattern is constant but word length can be changed

space - word - space - (

is a fix pattern..
# 4  
Old 07-01-2009
hmmm this sed pattern may help
Code:
sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\) (\(.*\)/\2/g' filename

# 5  
Old 07-01-2009
thanks for your solution. I'll try it ASAP..
# 6  
Old 07-01-2009
perl:

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

# 7  
Old 07-02-2009
try this
Code:
my $s = "something is good wanted (bla bla)";
if ( $s =~ /^.*\s(.*)\s\(/ ) {
    print "$1";
}

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 07-05-2009 at 11:18 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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