Re: Help needed for perl rookie

From: GRLCOPM (grlcopm_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:29:57 GMT

> From: ioneabu@yahoo.com
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
> Date: 27 Dec 2004 14:17:37 -0800
> Subject: Re: Help needed for perl rookie
>
>
> looks like you are replacing the spaces after the numbers with a '|'
> and removing the single quotes.
>
> s/(\d+)\s/$1|/g;
> s/'//g;
>

Yes, that is how I have changed the format of the data file. Replaced the
spaces with | and removed the single quotes from the last item on the line.

Can someone please explain what the the following line of code does and what
the replacement would be?

if (($acc,$day,$dayacc,$uri) = ($line =~ /^(\d+) (\d+) (\d+) '(\S+)'$/)) {

Thanks

Patrick

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