> 1. If we are after field 15, how comes you used field 14 in your
> answer please!   *************if ($fields[14] =~
/M/)***********************

The Nth element of an array is offset N-1.

So $foo[0] is the first element, $foo[1] is the second
and so on. This is a common practice in computing
languages.

> 2. Were could I read up on 'regexp' please!

At a shell prompt or command line:

    perldoc perlre

More generally:

    http://learn.perl.org/

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