"Hubert Ian M. Tabug" wrote:
>
> Given that $a = `1234 abcde abdcd acbd`;
^ ^
So you are running the program "1234" and want the output in $a or are
the back-quotes a typo?
> Would anyone know of of a way for me to just
> "extract" the numerical portion of the string. The
> numerical part is not fixed in length it could be
> composed4, 3, 2 or 1 digit I was thinking that the
> string could be treated as an array of characters
> and that I could just parse the string by accessing
> its index, say $a[0]?? Your assistance would be
> greatly appreciate.
my ( $number ) = $a =~ /\d+/g;
John
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