I need to truncate a title field from Links SQL to all the text preceding the first ampersand (&) or (,). Does anybody know the regex expression for such a feat? Regex looks really intimidating but I know it can be done.
Aug 21, 2003, 1:07 PM
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Maybe something like;
$var =~ m,(.+?)(\&|\,),,gi and my $beginning = $1;
That should assign the bit before the first & or comma.
Hope that helps.
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Andy (mod)
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$var =~ m,(.+?)(\&|\,),,gi and my $beginning = $1;
That should assign the bit before the first & or comma.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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