Re^4: Newbie parsing problem

great solutions, I have noticed that:

my ($last, $first, $middle) = ($name =~ /(\w+)\W*?(\w+)\W*(\w)?/);
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doesn't handle lastnames with hypens in them, any ideas? thanks again!

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Re^5: Newbie parsing problem by mk. (Friar) on Jan 26, 2007 at 12:21 UTC
\w only matches letters, digits and underscores. since the hyphen is a non-word (\W), that regex interprets it as a separator, so that the second part of the last name is considered the first name. the following code supports hyphenated first and last names: `my ($last, $first, $middle) = ($name =~ /([\w-]+)\W?([\w-]+)\W(\w)?/);` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *women.pm	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Newbie parsing problem by rtremaine (Acolyte) on Jan 26, 2007 at 15:12 UTC
ahhh, I see! thanks again for all your help!	[reply]