On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm having some difficulty applying this. It's going into a perl file > thusly: > > $logmsg =~ s|/((Mon|Tues?|Wed|Thu(rs?)?|Fri|Sat|Sun)\s+(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr| > May|June?|July?|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\s+[0-3]?[0-9]\s+(19|20)[0-9][0-9]\s > +[^<]+<[^\s@]+@[^\s@>]+>\s+2.[4-6].[0-9.-]+\s*)/|mg > > But that gives me Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(( <-- > HERE or something along those lines. > > The added "s|...|mg" is coming from other lines in this script which > look like: > > $logmsg =~ s|^\s*\d\d*-\d\d*-\d\d*\s*[^<\n]*<[^>\n]*>\s*$|* \n|mg; > > so I'm sure I'm screwing something up when putting it in the script. You can't use "|" in the "s|||mg" command since it's used inside the regex. IIRC you should be able to use "%": "s%%%mg". -- Jeff Ollie -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list