Pattern Matching Question 1

[JaySang]

I'm reading in a file(code structure) line by line and I need to come up with a pattern match for a line:

indirect( field("VARIABLE") field("VARIBLE") etc etc etc )

I need to get the first field and the first variable only.

I have tried ^ or /o and i think I'm doing it wrong.

any suggestions ??

thanks

 

[rharsh]

Given just the line of code you specified above, the following regex works fine. It might require some modification depending on what the rest of your file looks like.

$_ = 'indirect( field1("VARIABLE 1") field2("VARIABLE 2") etc etc etc )';
print "$1 - $2\n" if (m/^\s*indirect.*?(\w+).*?"(.+?)"/i);