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Re: [Omaha.pm] Count occurrences of the value of an attribute in XML

On May 29, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Andy Lester wrote:

On May 29, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:
$ perl -lne '/rt="(\w+)"/; print $1' RevData.DALMAN.20070529.xml | uniq 

I would put a \b in front of the rt so you don't match cart="foo".


Ya. I like that. Thanks!

On May 29, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Andy Lester wrote:

Actually, this is wrong.  You cannot rely on the value of $1 if the
m// did not match.  Your "optimization" to /rt.../ && print $1 is
necessary or else it is wrong.
Yup. That's why I posted that correction 2 minutes after my first post. Thanks, 

j