[Israel.pm] Regex question: alternation between a delimiter and EOL

[Gaal Yahas]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:14:00PM +0200, Yossi Itzkovich wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I have a line like:
> key=value;key=value;key=value
>  
> Each fields ends with ";" except the last one in each line.  value can
> not contain ";"
> How can I catch the pair of key=value  ?
> I can't do something like:
> /key=(.+?)(;|$)/
> although I'd like too...

Possibly easier not to use a regexp here.

@vals = map { s/key=// or die "bad input: $_"; $_ } split /;/, $string;

But you can also do this:

@vals = $string =~ /key=([^;]+);?/g;

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