[Raleigh-talk] Please assist w/regex

devin at nacredata.com devin at nacredata.com
Tue Mar 20 06:10:43 PDT 2007


$name =~ s/ \([^\)]+\)//g;


-- devin



--- "James Olin Oden" <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Andy Myhr <awmyhr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all, I am having an issue with regular expressions in Perl.  I
> > have the following:
> >
> > $name = "Sun (TM) Enterprise 250 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)";
> >
> > What I want is:
> >
> > $name = "Sun Enterprise 250";
> >
> > But if I use this:
> >
> > $hwname =~ s/ \(\w+\)//g;
> >
> Try:
> 
>    $name =~ s/ \([^)]+?\)//g;
> 
> Two points...the string "(2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)" has numbers and
> spaces both of which are not word characters, and you definately need
> to put the question mark after the plus so your regular expression is
> no longer greedy, otherwise you'd match:
> 
>    (TM) Enterprise 250 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)
> 
> Cheers...james
> 
> P.S. Keep these easy questions comming it will distract me from perl
> memory leaks and other things that are all around painful.
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