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Hi,
I have multiple strings like:
John, Smith can be reached at: john@microsoft.com
I have many strings like this, what I need to do is put John into $fname, Smith into $lname and john@microsoft.com into $mail.
Note this is a structure for every line: First name, Last name, text, email. Name is always first and separated by commas, email is always last.
Thanks.
I have multiple strings like:
John, Smith can be reached at: john@microsoft.com
I have many strings like this, what I need to do is put John into $fname, Smith into $lname and john@microsoft.com into $mail.
Note this is a structure for every line: First name, Last name, text, email. Name is always first and separated by commas, email is always last.
Thanks.
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ok i dont quite get this, lets say my line is stored in the $line, what do I do?
If you say $line =~ /^{[a-z] ... etc, you are binding the contents of $line to the regular expression. The brackets say to retain matching portions or groups. These can then be retrieved from the special verialbes, $1 for the first group etc and assigned to a local variable in your program.
($fname,$lname,$mail) = $line=~/(\w+)\W+(\w+).*\s(
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Thanks!
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