PERL Beginners - Re: regex remove of strings etc

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Re: regex remove of strings etc

Muthukumar

2005-08-23, 7:55 am

> I need to remove the string "room" (notice the check for a space too) and=
also to check for spaces in the beginnig and then maybe at the end
> of the total string.
>=20
> $p110rm01 =3D~ s/(\sroom|^\s*|\s*$)//igo;
>=20

It is correct. You can try as,

# echo " hi this is a room ok" | perl -ne 'if ( /\s*.*\sroom.*\s*/ ) {
s/ room//;}print;'
# hi this is a ok

hth.

Brent Clark

2005-08-23, 7:55 am

Muthukumar wrote:

> It is correct. You can try as,
>
> # echo " hi this is a room ok" | perl -ne 'if ( /\s*.*\sroom.*\s*/ ) {
> s/ room//;}print;'
> # hi this is a ok

Hi
you the man
I cant believe I was sooo stupid in not thinking of your solution.

thanks again

Brent Clark

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