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    copied!<p>I was moving along on a regex expression and I have hit a road block I can't seem to get around. I am trying to get rid of "(" in the middle of a line of text using regex, there were 2 but I figured out how to get the one on the end of the line. its the one in the middle I can hack out.</p> <p>Here is a more complete snippet of the file which I am search through.</p> <pre><code>ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.clientDevice = "TRUE" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE" floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE" floppy0.clientDevice = "TRUE" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ethernet0.networkName = "solignis.local" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" guestOSAltName = "Ubuntu Linux (64-bit)" guestOS = "ubuntulinux" uuid.location = "56 4d e8 67 57 18 67 04-c8 68 14 eb b3 c7 be bf" uuid.bios = "56 4d e8 67 57 18 67 04-c8 68 14 eb b3 c7 be bf" vc.uuid = "52 c7 14 5c a0 eb f4 cc-b3 69 e1 6d ad d8 1a e7" </code></pre> <p>Here is a the entire foreach loop I am working on.</p> <pre><code>my @virtual_machines; foreach my $vm (keys %virtual_machines) { push @virtual_machines, $vm; } foreach my $vm (@virtual_machines) { my $vmx_file = $ssh1-&gt;capture("cat $virtual_machines{$vm}{VMX}"); if ($vmx_file =~ m/^\bguestOSAltName\b\s+\S\s+\W(?&lt;GUEST_OS&gt; .+[^")])\W/xm) { $virtual_machines{$vm}{"OS"} = "$+{GUEST_OS}"; } else { $virtual_machines{$vm}{"OS"} = "N/A"; } if ($vmx_file =~ m/^\bguestOSAltName\b\s\S\s.+(?&lt;ARCH&gt; \d{2}\W\bbit\b)/xm) { $virtual_machines{$vm}{"Architecture"} = "$+{ARCH}"; } else { $virtual_machines{$vm}{"Architecture"} = "N/A"; } } </code></pre> <p>I am thinking the problem is I cannot make a match to "(" because the expression before that is to ".+" so that it matches everything in the line of text, be it alphanumeric or whitespace or even symbols like hypens.</p> <p>Any ideas how I can get this to work?</p> <p>This is what I am getting for an output from a hash dump.</p> <pre><code>$VAR1 = { 'NS02' =&gt; { 'ID' =&gt; '144', 'Version' =&gt; '7', 'OS' =&gt; 'Ubuntu Linux (64-bit', 'VMX' =&gt; '/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/NS02/NS02.vmx', 'Architecture' =&gt; '64-bit' }, </code></pre> <p>The part of the code block where I am working with ARCH work flawless so really what I need is hack off the "(64-bit)" part if it exists when the search runs into the ( and have it remove the preceding whitespace before the (.</p> <p>What I am wanting is to turn the above hash dump into this.</p> <pre><code>$VAR1 = { 'NS02' =&gt; { 'ID' =&gt; '144', 'Version' =&gt; '7', 'OS' =&gt; 'Ubuntu Linux', 'VMX' =&gt; '/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/NS02/NS02.vmx', 'Architecture' =&gt; '64-bit' }, </code></pre> <p>Same thing minus the (64-bit) part.</p>
 

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