Re: Simple string search

On 2 nov, 21:39, spamb...@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article <1194033024.617604.170...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jordilin <jordi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, there is more than one way to do it. This is Perl, isn't it? By
the way, can you explain the following regex?
m/id="(.{12})"/
I am not sure about this 12 between brackets.

. means "any character"
{12} means "whatever came just before this, we're looking for 12 of it".

So .{12} means "any sequence of exactly 12 characters", and (.{12}) means
"open paren, followed by any sequence of exactly 12 characters, followed by
close paren".

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Well, I understand. The problem is that, in this example the ids
differ in length, so it does not work here. We should write sth like

m/id="(.{7,})"/

match at least 7 times, taking into account there are no ids with less
than 7 chars.
Thanks
jordi

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