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($row[0] =~ /^[A-Z]{2}$/)

Shouldn't this match a line that has ONLY the country code on it, ie;

AU
US
Fred's AUSTRALIA
Bills US Postal Service. GA

and I only want it to return line 1 and 2. That is
AU
and
US

So it has to match a line that has ONLY two capital letters in it.

thanks
Robert


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Also sprach Merlin:

> ($row[0] =~ /^[A-Z]{2}$/)
>
> Shouldn't this match a line that has ONLY the country code on it, ie;
>
> AU
> US
> Fred's AUSTRALIA
> Bills US Postal Service. GA
>
> and I only want it to return line 1 and 2. That is
> AU
> and
> US
>
> So it has to match a line that has ONLY two capital letters in it.

And that's exactly what the pattern '^[A-Z]{2}$' does. Why do you think
it doesn't?

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>
>
> ($row[0] =~ /^[A-Z]{2}$/)
>
> Shouldn't this match a line that has ONLY the country code on it, ie;
>
> AU
> US
> Fred's AUSTRALIA
> Bills US Postal Service. GA
>
> and I only want it to return line 1 and 2. That is
> AU
> and
> US
>
> So it has to match a line that has ONLY two capital letters in it.

yes. if it does not work you must examine what $row[0] contains
at the time of the match. maybe you are testing the wrong variable,
or maybe it contains extra stuff like spaces.

gnari

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, it was written:

>($row[0] =~ /^[A-Z]{2}$/)
>
>Shouldn't this match a line that has ONLY the country code on it, ie;

No, it should match a STRING that has ONLY the country code on it, plus an
optional trailing newline.

If your string has multiple lines in it, you'll need to add the /m
modifier.

Now, what are you doing, and what's not working like you'd expect?

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