> the original regex that Gordon said "worked" was:
>
> : >> if ($line =~ m/.*\,.*\,.*\,.*\,.*\,.*/){
>
> which would match ",,,,," quite happily. perhaps in this
> application it's expected that there won't be anything
> between the commas...
if ($line =~ m/(?:[^,]+\,){5}[^,]+/)) {
should do the trick. Basically, it works like:
[^,] - non comma characters
[^,]+ - one or more non comma characters
\, - comma
[^,]+\, - one or more non comma characters
followed by a comma
(?:[^,]+\,) - as above, but in non-capturing brackets
(?:[^,]+\,){5} - do this pattern 5 times
Easy huh? :)
Jonathan Paton
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