Question

I have the following question.
How do you match a sentence, which is surrounded by commas(,), but the sentences can vary in size and number of words. For example:

Hi,How are you,bye

Thanks, I am very good,bye

So I want to match “How are you” and “I am very good”
I have tried something like

 $_ =~ /,([\w\s\w\s\w,])/;

but that seems very wrong and will “possibly” match 3 words separated by space.

Answer 1

Wouldn’t a simple /,(.+?),/ do? Or /,([\w\s]+?),/ if you want to be sure that you only have words and spaces?

my $str = "Hi,How are you,bye";

$str =~ /,([\w\s]+?),/;
print "$1\n";

$str = "Thanks, I am very good,bye";

$str =~ /,([\w\s]+?),/;
print "$1\n";