Re: regexp pattern matching

Hair schreef:
Hello, I have a pattern matching question, that I can't seem to find
the answer to either online or in books, so here is the pattern I am
trying to match, and hopefully some kind soul will give me pointers:


The satchel contains the following items (97): item1, item2, etc etc


I can match the first part, but I am trying to extract the item list.
I am having problems getting the pattern to match the (97) [note,
that number varies] and the : and just give me the items in the list.

Yes, this is for a mud, but using perl regex in tinyfugue. I had
help on the tf list getting the majority of this working, but the
(97): still gets added to my list and I don't want it. TIA for any
help.

You're problem might be that you use the () unescaped.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict ;
use warnings ;

$\ = $, = $" = "\n" ; # see perldoc perlvar

$_ = 'The satchel contains the following items (97):
item1, item2, etc' ;

my $re = qr/^.*?\((\d+)\):\s*(.*)/ ;

my ($count, $csv) = /$re/ ;

if ($count)
{
print $count, $csv ;

@_ = split /,[[:blank:]]*/, $csv ;

print '', scalar @_, @_ ;
}

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Affijn, Ruud

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