Re^5: Problem with ampersand and regex

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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Re^6: Problem with ampersand and regex by Anonymous Monk on Dec 19, 2012 at 22:01 UTC
Done and here is a sample of what I got back: `', 'sn: ThisUser ', 'mail: ThisUser@somewhere.com ', 'cn: This User ', 'uid: MyUID` [download] Now what?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Problem with ampersand and regex by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 19, 2012 at 22:09 UTC
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"; } }` [download] 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	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Problem with ampersand and regex by Anonymous Monk on Dec 20, 2012 at 14:24 UTC
Thank you for your time Dave in going to this much effort to help a total stranger. Not sure exactly what fixed it, but I used the chomp as recommended and then copied/pasted your code and that seems to have solved the issue. Thanks again and have a great Christmas!	[reply]