[ubuntu-uk] Quick Perl question...

[Jon Spriggs]

I'm not very^h any good with Regex, but try putting ()'s around what you
want to search for. Also, try out rubular.com to experiment without needing
to drop out of your editor and running something to test it.

All the best,

-- 
Jon "TheNiceGuy" Spriggs

On 12 Jul 2010 21:13, "LeeGroups" <mailgroups at varga.co.uk> wrote:

I'm having a bit of an issue with a Perl script on my Ubuntu server at
home (can you see what I did there :)...

The line in question is this...

$solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;

 From my tinkerings, this should find the string </solar> in the string
$solar_info, and then remove it and any number of following characters
(the .*) and then replace them with a ",".
Except that it doesn't. It hacks out the </solar> and replaces it with a
, but leaves the rest of the string intact... Much to my annoyance... :|

Any clues?

Cheers,
Lee


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