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How to assign the match of string to another variable in perl?
Posted on 2012-12-21
I try to assign the matched result to another variable but instead the other variable gets the value 1 which means that there is match.
Here is the example:
$infoArray[3] is something like this: Client root: some/path/in/here
Expected result for $clientRoot:
Here is the example:
my ($clientRoot) = $infoArray[3] =~ /Client root:\s.*/;
$infoArray[3] is something like this: Client root: some/path/in/here
Expected result for $clientRoot:
some/path/in/here
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I normally use my other pattern but why didn't it work in here? Is it because I have an array instead of a single variable?
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Or, more verbosely:
if ($infoArray[3] =~ m{Client root:\s+(.*)}) {
$clientRoot = $1;
}
my ($clientRoot) = ($infoArray[3] =~ m{Client root:\s+(.*)});
You can do it this way:
my ($clientRoot) = $infoArray[3] =~ /Client root:\s(.*)/;
Only difference is the capturing group in the regex.
my ($clientRoot) = $infoArray[3] =~ /Client root:\s(.*)/;
Only difference is the capturing group in the regex.
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Your original pattern did not work because you forgot the capturing parens (see my second option for the correct equivalent of your original idea (which I missed when reading the question)). The parens around the match may not be required in mine but I usually include them just to make precedence explicit.
my ($clientRoot) = ($infoArray[3] =~ m{Client root:\s+(.*)});
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It did work, but the only thing output is the entire match. This is because you didn't specify any capture groups (parentheses, like brendonfeeley demonstrated). When you capture the result of a regex in list context in Perl, the capture groups are what are output to the variable. Since you didn't specify any groups, the output reverted to the overall match.
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