if there wasn't  an ocean separating us, I would smack you!!!
  O:-)
L.

Thomas Abeel wrote:
I would paste it in Word, replace the spaces with a tabs, select the 
whole thing, copy it and paste it in Excel. Then select the column you need.

That's what I call KIS. No need to mess around with Perl

lieven sterck wrote:
  
aaahh,  8-)  , the many ways of PERL !!!

Sebastian Proost wrote:
    
Esther-Kristin Lather schreef:
  
      
Hi!

How can I make this Regex greedy?

my ($seq) = ($var =~m/^(.*_{0,1}\d+)\s.*/);

if $var is "ara_prot.tfa_3154 | AT1G26170.1 | no family",
I want to cut after the first whitespace
so that $seq becomes be "ara_prot.tfa_3154" and not "ara_prot.tfa_3154 | 
AT1G26170.1".

I don't know where/ how to include the ? for non-greedy search. I would 
want to do it with round brackets, but that violates the round brackets 
I already use for getting a part of the string, no?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Esther.
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use split ;)

  
      
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