Need basic parsing/regex help

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I'm new to perl (and actually not even really trying to develop this skill - I inherited some code and am trying to enhance it).

Basically, I want to get the text between parts of a text string.
How do I get the parsed variable to contain "WHATEVER IT IS"?

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#!/usr/bin/perl
$var="BLAH{108:WHATEVER IT IS}HEY";
$parsed=($var =~ /\{108:(\w*)\}/); 
print "PARSED:$parsed\n";
#!/usr/bin/perl
$var="BLAH{108:WHATEVER IT IS}HEY";
$parsed=($var =~ /\{108:(\w*)\}/); 
print "PARSED:$parsed\n";

Last edited by winbatch; Mar 13th, 2007 at 9:23 pm.

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Re: Need basic parsing/regex help

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($parsed) = $var =~ /\{108:([^}]*)\}/;
($parsed) = $var =~ /\{108:([^}]*)\}/;

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Re: Need basic parsing/regex help

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by KevinADC ...

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($parsed) = $var =~ /\{108:([^}]*)\}/;
($parsed) = $var =~ /\{108:([^}]*)\}/;

Worked like a charm. Thanks! (Maybe some day I'll understand it)

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