[ale] NewbieQ Perl filtering question

[Tim Meanor]

This is kinda ugly, but it should work:
$string1 = string1;
$string2 = string2;
$input = "blah..blah..string1good contentstring2..garbage..garbage";

$tempstring = (split $string1, $input)[1];
$good_content = (split $string2, $tempstring)[0];

or, more compactly:

$good_content = ( split "string2", ( split "string1", input )[1] )[0];


-Tim

On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Mills, John M. wrote:

> ALErs -
>
> I need to return only the part of a text line that falls between two
> expected character strings, as it:
>
> Input: blah..blah..string1<good content>string2..garbage..garbage
> Output: <good_content>
>
> TIA for a bit of guidance.
>
>  - Mills
>
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