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Find string of single digits in string of numbers

gobbluth529
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Jan 15, 2010, 10:07 PM

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Find string of single digits in string of numbers	Can't Post

I have several line of numbers for which I need to extract the single digits. All numbers are separated by spaces. Example:
28 5 29 29 5 5 27 30 5 29 34 34 34 33 29 5 30 34 34 34 33 34 34 34 34 33 34 33 34 34 34 30 26 33 34 33 26 32 33 33 33 33 34 33 33 34 33 26 33 33 33 33 32 31 34 32 33 32 5 4 7 8 3 6 8 4 33 31 33 33 27 33 30 5 30 32 26 4
As you can see there is a set of single digits nested within the string 5 4 7 8 3 6 8 4. these numbers will change and it does not matter what the numbers are as long as they are single digits. I can match that by doing
m/\s\d\s\d\s\d\s\d\s\d\s\d\s\d\s\d/
But the number of single digits that are strung together will also change, and I would like to specify that as a variable.
I want to do something like this:
m/<\s\d\s>{$t,}/
but that of course won't work. I want to be able to change $t to various numbers without changing the script. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I do not think using the word boundaries will work because they are digits and

Thanks.

FishMonger
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Jan 16, 2010, 6:00 AM

Post #2 of 3 (2882 views)

Re: [gobbluth529] Find string of single digits in string of numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

use Data::Dumper; 
 
my $str = '28 5 29 29 5 5 27 30 5 29 34 34 34 33 29 5 30 34 34 34 33 34 34 34 34 33 34 33 34 34 34 30 26 33 34 33 26 32 33 33 33 33 34 33 33 34 33 26 33 33 33 33 32 31 34 32 33 32 5 4 7 8 3 6 8 4 33 31 33 33 27 33 30 5 30 32 26 4'; 
my @num = $str =~ /\b(\d)\b/g; 
print Dumper \@num;

Outputs:

Code

shawnhcorey
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Jan 16, 2010, 6:03 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2881 views)

Re: [gobbluth529] Find string of single digits in string of numbers [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

m{ \b \d \s* $t \b }msx;

See `perldoc perlre`

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