On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you could send in sample strings - received and final expected >> result, I can help with hacking Perl code. > > Thank you. Expected input is strings like: > > "1 foo bar" -> channel-ID="1", UUID="foo bar" > "2 hello" -> channel-ID="2", UUID="hello" > > Only numerics in the channel-ID, followed by one SP to separate them, then > anything including more SP characters in the UUID portion. > my $string = "1 foo bar"; $string =~ m/^(\d+)\s(.*)$/; my ($cid, $uuid) = ($1, $2); Above code will give values for $cid and $uuid as: $cid = 1 $uuid = "foo bar" Let me know if that's as expected. > > code submission and auditing procedures are detailed at: > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/MergeProcedure > Thanks for this. I will submit it soon. regards, Nishant
