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in reply to Re: How can I extract part of a string after a specific character
in thread How can I extract part of a string after a specific character

Both you and DamnDirtyApe have a .* preceeding the =. Why?
print $string =~ /=(.*)/
will do fine.

Abigail

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Re: Re: How can I extract part of a string after a specific character
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jul 11, 2002 at 10:21 UTC

    will do fine.

    But not the same. Their versions grab everything after the last =, your version grabs evertyhing after the first one.
    I think your solution is better (and I'm sure it's a lot more efficient), but we can't know for sure without more information.

    $\ = "\n"; for ('title=foo' ,'title=foo=bar') { print "-> $_"; print /.*=(.*)/; print /=(.*)/; }

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      Their versions grab everything after the last =, your version grabs evertyhing after the first one.
      Eh, no. Only *one* of their versions grabs everything after the last, the other grabs everything after the first. The problem however didn't specify what should happen if there are multiple = characters present.

      Abigail