perl word extract

sunlinux · 06-22-2012, 02:35 AM

Hi I want to extract values between two characters

like

this is not:here we go:now don't do

I want to extract here we go from above line .. any help

pan64 · 06-22-2012, 02:40 AM

how do you define the delimiter char ? you can use split

anomie · 06-22-2012, 12:08 PM

I agree that split is probably the most elegant. (You could also do this with regex and the binding operator.)

Code:

my $string = qq/this is not:here we go:now don't do/ ;

# Take a slice from split()
#
my $extract = (split(/:/, $string))[1] ;

print $extract . "\n" ;