Re: Trying to remove text in inverted commas.

Gregory Machin wrote:

> I'm writing a script to import logs into a Mysql .. My Perl is rusty
> and I'm battling with a convention on the one column. I need to
> remove the text in inverted commas "Prashil" 106 so that just the
> number 106 remains.. I have been trying the following regex
> s/(\"([^"]+)\"\s)//g but it doesn't seem to work. I got it from a
> website .. It looked correct .. mmm .. with regard to it's structure i
> don't quite get ([^"]+) as I have tried replacing it with other
> combinations and had less luck. I have also tried
> s/\"([:word:])\"\s)//g ...

Your substitution code (not: regex) looks OK, so something else is wrong.

The substitution code can be simplified to: s/"[^"]*"\s*//g

Maybe your data is encoded in some way?

--
Ruud

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