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ilcylic's scratchpad

by ilcylic (Scribe)
on Jun 04, 2004 at 18:05 UTC ( [id://361063]=scratchpad: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
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23 Feb 2013

I've got a file with a bunch of lines that look like so:

Honda   CB1000  1995    26      47      15      99-3520-5       30      55      17      99-3519-5

and some lines that look like:

Yamaha  YZF-R1 Limited edition  2006    30      47      12      99-3540-5       30      55      17      99-3519-5

I'm trying to grab everything up to and including the year.
Thus far I have 
cat triple_swap_bearings.txt | perl -ne 's/(^[^\s]*\s*[^\s]*\s*[\w\d\ 
+]*?(?=\d\d\d\d\s*\d\d\s*\d\d)\s*\d\d\d\d)\s*\d\d\s*\d\d.*$/\1/; print
+;'

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which fails on the lines that have the "extra stuff" after the model name, and before the year.

I suppose I don't need the [^\s]*\s*[^\s]*\s* though I was working on the "say what you really really mean in regex" principle there.

What I need to say in regex is "Match things which are not four digits followed by some amount of whitespace followed by two more digits".

Answer:
cat triple_swap_bearings.txt | perl -ne 's/(^[^\s]+\s*[^\s]+\s*[\w\d\ 
+\-\(\)\&\/]+?(?=\s+\d\d\d\d\s+\d\d\s+\d\d)\s+\d\d\d\d)\s+\d\d\s+\d\d.
++$/\1/; print;'

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(Note the addition of \s+ inside the positive lookahead assertion.)

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if ($foo == 1) { 

  my $bar; 

  unless(($bar = $socket->read()) =~ /one/) { 
    die $bar, $!; 
  } 
  $socket->write('foo'); 

  unless(($bar = $socket->read()) =~ /two/) { 
    die $bar, $!; 
  } 
  $socket->write('bar');

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etc. vs: 
if ($foo == 1) { 

  unless((my $bar = $socket->read()) =~ /one/) { 
    die $bar, $!; 
  } 
  $socket->write('foo'); 

  unless((my $bar = $socket->read()) =~ /two/) { 
    die $bar, $!; 
  } 
  $socket->write('bar');

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