Re: Extract part of a string

On Apr 30, 9:21 am, roopa...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

I want to extract everything between the hash signs in the following
string

"### This is a test ###"

I am using the following..

if($desc=~ /\#{3}(.*?)\#{3}/ )
{
print $1;

}

I am not getting the desired result. Please tell me what I am doing
wrong.

What you're doing wrong is not posting a short-but complete script
that demonstrates your error. Because what you have above *does*
work. So therefore you're doing something wrong in your actual code
that you haven't bothered to show us...

$ perl -e'
my $desc = "### This is a test ###";
if($desc=~ /\#{3}(.*?)\#{3}/ )
{
print $1;
}
'
Results: This is a test

Paul Lalli

.

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