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I get mail=asdf.com ? ?

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Re^5: Problem with ampersand and regex
by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 19, 2012 at 21:48 UTC

    Add the following to your script:

    use Data::Dumper;

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    ...and then on the line immediately preceding your "for" loop, add, "print Dumper \@array;".

    There might be something broken in your input data, and that would be a simple means of identifying (or eliminating) it as a problem.


    Dave

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      Done and here is a sample of what I got back: 
      ',
    'sn: ThisUser
',
    'mail: ThisUser@somewhere.com
',
    'cn: This User
',
    'uid: MyUID

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      Now what?
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        Well, that does tell us that you're not chomping the input, which you should be doing. chomp @array; would take care of that problem. What it doesn't show me is how the following would fail: 

        my @array = (
  'sn ThisUser',
  'mail: ThisUser@somewhere.com',
  'cn: This User',
  'uid: MyUID',
);

foreach my $line ( @array ) {
  if( $line =~ m/^mail:\s+([\S]+)/ ) {
    print "$1\n";
  }
}

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        It doesn't fail on my system, which leads me to believe that the problem is in a portion of your code that we're not seeing, or in your data-set. If your data-set looks clean, we're back to the portion of the code that we haven't been shown.


        Dave

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