Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Word filter

At 14:49 Uhr +0100 29.01.2003, Eelco Alosery wrote:
>From a string I want to filter out what is between [ and ]
>$word must now contain what stands there.
>Bur there is no telling where the [ and the ] stands so it must 
>delete al what is in front of [ and what is after ]

Try something like this:

#!perl -w

$string = 'This is [a test] string';

$string =~ m/.*\[(.*)\].*/;

$word = $1;

print "word= -$word- \n";

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Also see the m/PATTERN/cgimosx matching operator in perlop.pod and 
read the Perl regular expression manpage perlre.pod.


HTH,
Thomas