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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
February 26, 2002 06:58
Subject:
RE: Reg Exp help
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0202260956570.19152-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Feb 26, Daryl J. Hoyt said:

>If there is only one of the lines |GRP| this will work. Otherwise I would
>push the lines into a an array instead of a variable.
>
>@Out = `$Cmd`;
>$WhatFollowsGRP = "";
>
>foreach my $line (@Out)
>{
>	if($line =~ /|GRP|/)

You need to escape those |'s.  They're special to a regex.

>	{
>		$line =~ s/|GRP|//;

Whenever I see if (/foo/) { s/foo//; ... }, I suggest it be shortened to
if (s/foo//) { ... }  It's less work.

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