[Pdx-pm] Simplistic, yet complicated question....

[Andrew S. Clapp]

You need to "perldoc perlrequick" or "perldoc perlre". 

\s+ will match what you want.

-ASC

On 09 Dec 2002 10:47:40 -0800 
 aj <aj at linuxaid.org> wrote:

 > Sorry about the confusion...
 > 
 > Again here is the data:
 > 
 > 123454 text                67890 Get Rid of text
 > 234555 more text to keep
 > 
 > The text I am wanting to remove is "67890 Get rid of text".  The only
 > pattern to this data is the multiple spaces between "12344 text" and
 > "67890 text".  The space pattern could be 2 or it could be 20.  I would
 > think if I could do a split on this the top line with a variable amount
 > of spaces and then I would just remove the second portion of the line. 
 > Does this make better sense?
 > 
 > Thanks Again, 
 > A.J. Weinzettel
 > 
 > 
 > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:09, Jeff Zucker wrote:
 > > aj wrote:
 > > 
 > > > I am parsing a text file and I have the following layout of text
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > > 123454 text                67890 Get Rid of text
 > > > 234555 more text to keep
 > > > 
 > > > My first idea is to substitue two spaces with nothing 
 > > > ( $line =~ s/  //g) and then try to do some sort of split on the
 > > > resulting.  I am sure there is a better way of doing this, but not
 > > > having too much luck finding an answer.  Any suggestions would be
 > > > greatly appreciated.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > You'll have to do a better job of describing what the constant factors 
 > > are and what you want to keep/eliminate.  Do you want to get rid of text 
 > > that is after the third set of whitespaces in a given line?  Or text 
 > > after the number 67890?  Or text after the second set of numerical data 
 > > in a line?  Or text that is after position X in each line?  Any of those 
 > > could describe the data you've shown.
 > > 
 > > If you can describe what you want to do in English (or some other human 
 > > language) it's usually fairly easy to do in Perl.
 > -- 
 > aj <aj at linuxaid.org>
 > 
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rat: "Hmmm, wonder what bob just changed in dont_touch.c..."
rat: % lastdiff dont_touch.c
<rat reviews diff>
rat: "Yup, that completely sucks!  Where's my flamethrower..."
bob: "Hi rat, what's that ... Yeeaarrrrrrghhh!"