Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Perl split() question (OT)... Message-ID: <1718.209.167.16.15.1090596743.squirrel@209.167.16.15>
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Perl hackers -- Figured someone would have a reasonably quick, easy answer
for this:
I am trying to read through a file, line-by-line, and I want to extract
the text in between the [ and ] characters. I would normally half the line
by split() - ing the line first by [ as follows:
if ($logLine =~ /$struct$structStart/) {
@lineArray = split (/[/, $logLine);
and then further, half again later using the ]. However, Perl does not
like it when I search for [, as it thinks I am trying to use a regex. I
have tried to escape the pattern, to no avail.
Is there a 'special' escape for this, and more importantly, is there an
easier way to extract data from a line of a file without having to split
it up twice?
An example of the line I'm trying to get the contents out of is this:
| "LRED[Conversation started on 03 Feb 21:51:11]
and I need the data between [ ... ].
I know it's OT, but hopefully someone can help me out.
Tks!
Steve
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