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Re: regex for removing quoted text

by atcroft (Abbot)
on Mar 10, 2011 at 05:02 UTC ( [id://892345]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to regex for removing quoted text

You want to look at the /s switch on the s/// operator. For instance, with the following code (in a one-liner with -l):

my $str = q{this is "a test} . qq{\n} . q{this is "only a "poor "test}; print $str; print qq{=====}; $str =~ s/"[^"]+"//gs; print $str;
I get the following result, which is similar to what you indicated you needed:
this is "a test this is "only a "poor "test ===== this is only a test

Hope that helps.

Update: 2011-03-09

I cannot help but second roboticus's references and suggestions. There is much useful information (and I now have another module to take a look at when I have "spare" time available again). :)

Update: 2011-03-09

It appears as if the module in question may be YAPE::Regex::Explain (as I found when I tried installing it to play with it myself).

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Re^2: regex for removing quoted text
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Mar 10, 2011 at 05:12 UTC

    You want to look at the /s switch on the s/// operator.

    $str =~ s/"[^"]+"//gs;

    The  /s option has no effect in the expression /"[^"]+"/, it is superfluous.

      Technically, but it still signals the authors intentions

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