Re: regex help please

Jerry wrote:

It has been a while that I have done any regex. What I am trying to do is
break down a string like the following:

my $_ = " Emp# EmpStatus MStatus BeganEmp

You can't use my() on one of Perl's special variables like $_.

EndedEmp";

I do not know many words will be in $_ or if there will be spaces at the
front of $_ or not.
Along the getting the words, I need to get all the spaces as a word between
the words and at the end as well.

I have started with:

/\s+(\w+)\s+/g;

With your example above that will only match the two strings " Emp# "
and " MStatus ".

print "parm: *1 $1*2 $2*3 $3*4 $4*6 $6*7 $7*8
$8*$9*$10*$11*$12*$_*<br>\n" ;

Maybe you want something like this:

$_ = " Emp# EmpStatus MStatus BeganEmp EndedEmp";

my @fields = split;
my $count;
print join '*', 'parm: ', map( ++$count . " $_", @fields ), $_, "<br>\n";




John
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