What's a quick and real neat way of....

Piers Harding piers at ompa.net
Wed Nov 6 00:55:54 CST 2002


just a little tweaking - but there is mtowtdi....

 my ($abcd, $thisisabcd) = $var =~ /.*\/([^\/]*)\.jpg[,\s]+(.*)$/;

Cheers.

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:59:25PM +1300, Enkidu wrote:
> .....extracting the abcd and the string "This is abcd" from the
> following:
> 
> $var = "blah/blah/blah/abcd.jpg, This is abcd" ;
> 
> What I've come up with so far is:
> 
> $var = /.*\/(.*).jpg,(.*)$/ ;
> 
> Of course, I'm going to try it out when I get a chance, but what are
> my chances of success? abcd varies as does the string.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Clif
> --  
> 
> The Nats held a Party and no one came.



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