On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:40 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jesse Keating
<jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having some difficulty applying this. It's going into a perl file
> thusly:
>
> $logmsg =~ s|/((Mon|Tues?|Wed|Thu(rs?)?|Fri|Sat|Sun)\s+(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|
> May|June?|July?|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\s+[0-3]?[0-9]\s+(19|20)[0-9][0-9]\s
> +[^<]+<[^\s@]+@[^\s(a)>]+>\s+2.[4-6].[0-9.-]+\s*)/|mg
>
> But that gives me Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(( <--
> HERE or something along those lines.
>
> The added "s|...|mg" is coming from other lines in this script which
> look like:
>
> $logmsg =~ s|^\s*\d\d*-\d\d*-\d\d*\s*[^<\n]*<[^>\n]*>\s*$|* \n|mg;
>
> so I'm sure I'm screwing something up when putting it in the script.
You can't use "|" in the "s|||mg" command since it's used
inside the
regex. IIRC you should be able to use "%": "s%%%mg".
Ricky helped me get this regex going, thanks all!
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