Re: extract anything between escape characters

From: Ing. Branislav Gerzo (konfera_at_2ge.us)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:05:39 +0100
To: beginners@perl.org

Khairul Azmi [KA], on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 16:43 (+0800)
contributed this to our collective wisdom:
KA> I am newbies in this regex world. I just want to extract the character
KA> double quotes at the beginning and the ending of a string.

KA> $string1 = "this is the string";

KA> so that $string1 would be 'this is the string' without the double quotes. Thanks

$string =~ /.*/;

this is very very easy, just read something more about regexes. If
you'll know them, you'll love them :) 

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