Re: Matching against list of patterns

[hv]

in reply to Matching against list of patterns

There are a couple of ways to discover what pattern matched. The easiest is probably to use backrefs:

  my $pattern = join '|', map "($_)", @patterns;
  ...
  if ($line =~ /$pattern/i) {
    my $matchref = $#-;
    print "matched $pattern[$matchref - 1]\n";
  }

As warned by other posters, you may need to play with the ordering to ensure that the preferred pattern matches if more than one can, in which case you will also need a way to get back from the index of the matched backreference to the actual pattern.

Hugo

[Schuk]

To get the matched pattern matched text you can simply do:

my $pattern = join '|', map "($_)", @patterns;
...
if ($line =~ /($pattern)/i) {
    print "matched $1\n";
  }

But be carefull if you want to get another matched text in this line. Somewhat it eats up all $1,$2,$3. Use $+ to get the last matched text of the line.

Schuk

Edit: Sorry HV I should learn to read more carefully.

[hv]

That shows you what text matched, not which pattern matched it.

There's nothing wrong with it as a way of finding out what text matched, but in the node you replied to I was specifically trying to address this aspect of the root node: the whole point of this excercise is to figure out WHICH regexp matched.

Hugo