[Chicago-talk] Need help on a parsing that used to work

[Steven Lembark]

-- Bernie Leung <bernieleung at mesatech.com>

>
> I have a strange Perl problem that I thought PM's can help. I have the
> following PERL script that is acting strange (actually not working at
> all) on Linux Perl5 (version 8 subversion 0), but is OK in Windows Perl5
> (version 8, suversion 1).
>
> /^([^\s]+):(.*)$/
>
> This is supposed to parse from $_ a line like
>
> RCPT FROM: bernie at mesatech.com

If all you really want to do is split the line in two on
the first ':' boundry why not just use split? For example:

	my( $header, $value ) = split /:/, $_, 2;



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