Re: pick a word contaning reg-ex

[keesturam]

in reply to pick a word contaning reg-ex

Oh.! Reply from previous post answers my question as well!!

perl -ne '/(\w*!\w*)/g && print "$1\n";' code_file(s)

Lesson learnt. search for existing threads before posting questions :-)

[space_monk]

(...Presuming you mean: Re: extracting words with certain characters)

C'est rien! :-)

[Lotus1]

I just tried the code above and it only prints the first word (update: on each line) that contains an exclamation point.

#!/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

while(<DATA>){
    #print map {"$_\n"} grep{/!/} split;
    /(\w*!\w*)/g && print "$1\n";
}

__DATA__
 Mary had a little lamb! ,
 whose fleece! was white! as snow.

 And everywhere! that Mary went,
 the lamb was sure! to go.

oops!eedaisy

Produces this:

lamb!
fleece!
everywhere!
sure!
oops!eedaisy

[space_monk]

Oops - try

while (/(\w*!\w*)/g) {
   print "$1\n";
}