Re: split and grouping in regexp

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:22 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote:
I'm trying to split a date where the values can be separated by a dash
'-' or a slash '/', eg:
2006-10-31 or 2006/10/31

I'm using:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /(-|\/)/, $yyyymmdd;
but it doesn't work.

If I just do:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /-/, $yyyymmdd;
it works for dates separated by dashes, and if I do:
my ( $yyyy, $mm, $dd ) = split /\//, $yyyymmdd;
it works for dates separted by slashes.

Why can't I do both at the same time?

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You should remove the parenthesis there:

my $date = "2006-10-06";
my ($year, $month, $day) = split m{-|/}, $date;

Now you should have what you need. Using group parenthesis actually
assigns the first "match" to the $month variable, which would either be
a "-" or a "/".

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