[tpm] Regex question

[Mike Stok]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  I've got a simple problem I often come across, and I've got a way  
> to make it work. However, I've always felt there must be a more ...  
> elegant way of doing it.
>
> For example, let's say I want to copy a variable and strip a bit off  
> the end;
>
> my $foo="ABC-987-01";
> my $bar=$foo;
> $bar=~s/(\w+-\d+)-\d+/$1/;
> # $bar now 'ABC-987'.
>
> That's three lines. Is there a way to do this in one line?  
> Specifically, is there a way to assign '$1' to a new variable in one  
> go?


Maybe I misunderstood the question...  You can say

   my ($bar) = $foo =~ /(\w+-\d+)-\d+/;

which will assing $1 to $bar if the match succeeds.

Mike

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