Stupid RE question

[Michael W Cocke]

I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm missing it - What's the regular
expression to extract everything from the start of the line to the
first hyphen?

Thanks!

Mike-

 

[Jim Gibson]

I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm missing it - What's the regular
expression to extract everything from the start of the line to the
first hyphen?

if( $string =~ m/^([^-]*)-/ ) {
print "match: $1\n";
}

FYI: this newsgroup is defunct; try comp.lang.perl.misc in the future.

 

[Michael W Cocke]

FYI: this newsgroup is defunct; try comp.lang.perl.misc in the future.

Done, thanks.

Mike-