RE: WELCOME to [email protected]

thanks very much.

At 09:51 AM 4/25/03 -0600, Mark Morgan wrote:
>Sue -
>
>Sorry to cut off that last message prematurely.  The logic here is that
>the "(.*)" pattern is going to match as many character as is can, thus it
>goes out to the last quote.  By putting the ? in, it makes it match the
>first quote, not the last.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sue Polyson Evans [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:51 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: WELCOME to [email protected]
>
>
>Hello,
>Here is my problem.  I'd appreciate any help.
>
>I have the string:
>src="some.gif" alt="some information" width="100"
>
>I want to capture in a subgroup the value of whatever comes after src= and
>is contained within the first set of quotes.  In the example above, it
>would be some.gif
>
>I am using the Perl5 contains with the expression:
>src="(.*)"
>
>which produces the result:
>Match 1: src="some.gif" alt="some information" width="100"
>      Subgroups:
>      1: some.gif" alt="some information" width="100
>
>Which isn't what I want.   I want only
>      Subgroups:
>      1: some.gif
>
>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Again, thanks in advance for any help.
>
>- Sue Evans
>[email protected]
>
>
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