Re^3: newbie need help with a simple code

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This is using the regex captures to create a string. see perldoc perlre

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Re^4: newbie need help with a simple code by perlmonk007 (Novice) on Mar 05, 2013 at 05:11 UTC
Im sorry, i meant are the regex automatically captured to the scalars, if not what do i need to do to capture them into $1, $2 etc	[reply]
Re^5: newbie need help with a simple code by kielstirling (Scribe) on Mar 05, 2013 at 05:25 UTC
$1, $2, $3 and so on are what Perl populates captures to. However, some of us use a syntax that allows for named captures. If you read the man page for perlre all will become clear.	[reply]
Re^4: newbie need help with a simple code by perlmonk007 (Novice) on Mar 05, 2013 at 05:22 UTC
also the space between the characters is variable, it is not just one space, the file is such, could you tell me a regex for that please	[reply]
Re^5: newbie need help with a simple code by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 05, 2013 at 06:35 UTC
`\s # one whitespace character \s+ # one or more whitespace characters \s* # zero or more whitespace characters \s{5} # exactly five whitespace characters \s{3,5} # between 3 and 5 whitespace characters` [download] `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: newbie need help with a simple code by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 05, 2013 at 07:35 UTC
You forgot `\s{3,} # 3 or more whitespace characters`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: newbie need help with a simple code by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 05, 2013 at 14:26 UTC
That's a bit of information that should have been visible in your sample data. If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!	[reply]

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