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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
February 26, 2002 06:56
Subject:
Re: Reg Exp help
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0202260954060.19152-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Feb 26, Busse, Rich said:

>	$Out = `$Cmd` ;
>
>The output always looks like:
>
>List of Templates and Template Groups assigned to 'somenode.us.dnb.com':
>====================================================================
>|GRP| SBS-DSM
>====================================================================
>Operation successfully completed.
>
>It's always on 5 separate lines. How do I extract what follows |GRP| on the
>third line to a variable? TIA...

You could use this:

  ($text) = `$Cmd` =~ /^\|GRP\|\s*(.*)/m;

Let me expand that regex for you:

  m{
    ^        # the start of a "line"
    \|GRP\|  # the text '|GRP'
    \s*      # any whitespace following it
    (.*)     # the rest of the line (non-newline characters)
  }m         # make ^ match at the beginning of a "line"

You could also use

  `$Cmd` =~ /\n\|GRP\|\s*(.*)/;

which works almost exactly the same way.

Or, if you know it'll always be the third line...

  ($text) = (`$Cmd`)[2] =~ /\|GRP\|\s*(.*)/;

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