in reply to Record Separator affecting Regex
I think what you're looking for is the /m modifier. This allows ^ and $ to match newlines in multiline data. Since it appears you need to worry about multiline queries (otherwise, why are you modifying the record separator in the first place), I changed your data to include one.
...gives...$/ = ";\n"; while (my $line = <DATA> ){ $line =~ s/^#[^\r\n]*//mg; print "Query: $line\n"; } __DATA__ # one comment # two comment # another comment insert into table_name values(1, 'testing 1 2 3'); # more comments insert into table_name values (2, 'test •');
Query: insert into table_name values(1, 'testing 1 2 3'); Query: insert into table_name values (2, 'test •');
You could also add $line =~ s/^\s*$//mg; if you want to get rid of some of those blank lines.
-BirdUpdate: I like insensate's solution for removing the blank lines better. Use that one. :)
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Re: Re: Record Separator affecting Regex
by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 07, 2002 at 19:41 UTC | |
Re: Re: Record Separator affecting Regex
by Kozz (Friar) on Nov 07, 2002 at 19:26 UTC |
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