i'm not too fond of below suggestion's variable naming, but hey,
tmtowtdi.... here's my 2 bits:
my $foo = 'test case total : 32456 allocated : 12000 from tech';
my ($num1,$num2) = $foo =~ /(\d+).+?(\d+)/;
Good luck,
Jos Boumans
Aaron Craig wrote:
> my $sLine = "test case total : 32456 allocated : 12000 from tech";
> $sLine =~ /(\d+)[^\d]+(\d+)/;
> my $lNumber1 = $1;
> my $lNumber2 = $2;
> print "number 1: $lNumber1 and number 2: $lNumber2";
>
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> >can any one suggest me a REGEX to catch the numbers in the following
> >input line:
> >test case total : 32456 allocated : 12000 from tech
> >
> >I want to catch the two numbers and insert them to vars
>