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# 1  
Old 10-28-2008
Remove parenthesis character (Perl)
Hello, i'm unable to remove the parenthesis character.

With $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/\(//;
the string is the same

And with $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/(//;
i retrieve "Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE"

Any ideas, please? thank you in advanced.
# 2  
Old 10-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by aristegui
Hello, i'm unable to remove the parenthesis character.

With $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/\(//;
the string is the same

And with $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/(//;
i retrieve "Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE"

Any ideas, please? thank you in advanced.
How is this not working for you?

Code:
$ cat ./paren.perl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $parsed_AsciiName = "Today( is October 28, 2008.";

print "parsed_AsciiName Before = $parsed_AsciiName \n";
$parsed_AsciiName =~ s/\(//;
print "parsed_AsciiName After = $parsed_AsciiName \n";

exit 0;
$ ./paren.perl
parsed_AsciiName Before = Today( is October 28, 2008.
parsed_AsciiName After = Today is October 28, 2008.

Please post the code.
# 3  
Old 10-28-2008
Code:
split /\(/,$parsed_AsciiName ;

# 4  
Old 10-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
split /\(/,$parsed_AsciiName ;

I'm still not sure what is not working. Please post COMPLETE code:

Code:
$ cat paren.perl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $parsed_AsciiName = "Today( is October 28, 2008.";

print "parsed_AsciiName using split = ", split /\(/,$parsed_AsciiName;
print "\n";

print "parsed_AsciiName Before = $parsed_AsciiName \n";
$parsed_AsciiName =~ s/\(//;
print "parsed_AsciiName After = $parsed_AsciiName \n";

exit 0;
$ ./paren.perl
parsed_AsciiName using split = Today is October 28, 2008.
parsed_AsciiName Before = Today( is October 28, 2008.
parsed_AsciiName After = Today is October 28, 2008.

# 5  
Old 10-28-2008
Code:
# cat par.pl

$data="abc(123";
$data =~ s/\(/ /;
print $data;

# perl par.pl
abc 123
#

This worked for me.
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