Re: regex

Hi,

Sometimes the large path is the shortest one. Go through the tutorial in Perl for regular expressions and you will solve your questions and you will learn a lot.

About regular expressions are two points of view. First one says that you must learn and use it.

The other point of is: if you have a problem and you say I will solve it with regular expressions then you have two problems.

Ánimos!
Saludos
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From: Claude Brown via beginners <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 10:49:50 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: regex

Jorge,

Expanding on Karl's answer (and somewhat labouring his point) consider these examples:

$a =~ /Jorge/
$a =~ /^Jorge/
$a =~ /Jorge$/
$a =~ /^Jorge$/

This shows that regex providing four different capabilities:
- detect "Jorge" anywhere in the string
- detect "Jorge" at the start of a string (by adding ^)
- detect "Jorge" at the end of a string (by adding $)
- detect that the string is exactly "Jorge" (both ^ and $)

Replace "Jorge" with your pattern, and the result is the same.

Cheers,

Claude.





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