A regex question 1

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

I have 2 strings :

08/31/2006 08:47a 745,967 creoALRT.LOGcreoALRT.LOG
12/10/2006 03:08a 219,850 creoALRT_2006_11_06_001.log

I need the below regex to match the whole string starting with "creoALRT":

$LOGALERT =~ s/.*(creoALRT.*\.log)/$1/i;

However,in the first case ,the result is "creoALRT.LOG" ....
Appreciate help


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[TonyGroves]

Your regex is being too greedy. If you replace the ".*" with ".*?" (without quotes of course) it makes the .* match as few characters as possible instead of as many as possible.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Tony,thanks

I have tried this before:

ALERT =~ s/.*(creoALRT.*?)/$1/i;

but it still comes up with "ALERT" set as "creoALRT.LOG" ...



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[TonyGroves]

It was the first .* I meant. That would give you:
[tt]
creoALRT.LOGcreoALRT.LOG
creoALRT_2006_11_06_001.log
[/tt]

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,perfect.

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