Re: Regex searches including spaces

From: Gary Stainburn (gary.stainburn_at_ringways.co.uk)
Date: 10/23/03

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    To: "Paul Harwood" <harwood@nyclimits.org>, "Beginner Perl" <beginners@perl.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:34:57 +0100

    On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 1:03 am, Paul Harwood wrote:
    > I am trying to parse through the following line:
    >
    > TUITimer> TUI Dead Air Timer::1828ms::
    >
    > I want to extract the 1828 value. The regex I have is:
    >
    > if ( /TUI Dead Air(\d+)/ ) {
    >
    > I know this is wrong but I have tried every variation of \s that I can
    > think of with no success. Also, is there a Regex generator of some kind
    > where I can enter text searches and have them translated to Perl Regex
    > format? I am using a Win32 platform.
    >
    > --Paul

    Hi Paul,

    you missed out the colons. Have a look at

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    $_='TUITimer> TUI Dead Air Timer::1828ms::';

    print "$1\n" if (/Dead Air Timer::(\d+)ms/) ;
       

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