in reply to First word
$ perl -wle 'print shift =~ /^(\w+)\b/' "That's my sentence." That
As you can see, \w matches a word character, and \b marks the end of the first word (since we're matching the beginning aka ^ of the string).
More information at perlre.
-- Frank
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Re^2: First word
by grizzley (Chaplain) on Apr 24, 2008 at 09:49 UTC |
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