Perl s/ To Python?

[Andreas Kostyrka]

I'd consider taking a look at the re module ;)

Andreas

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:57:21PM +0100, John Abel wrote:
> Does anyone know of a quick way of performing this:
> 
> $testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g
> 
> The only way I can think of doing it, is:
> 
> mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" )
> remainder =  testVar[ :mailPos ]
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.  I'm iterating over a lot of entries, 
> and running these lines for each entry.
> 
> J
> 
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