Answer to Hubert (extracting date)

[Dhiraj P Nilange]

Hi Hubert ,
this is the small script which extracts anything
between 2 "(" and  ")" brackets. It maybe
useful for others to know thats why sending it
to mailing list.

Regards!

-Dhiraj Nilange
University of Pune.

#starts here

$a="xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx(Jan 12 1990) anything";

@array;
$i=0;
$bracket=0;
until($temp eq ")")
{
  $temp=substr($a,$i,1);
  if($temp eq "(")
  {
    $bracket=1;
  }
  if($bracket==1)
  {
    $array[$i]=$temp;
  }
  
  $i++;
}  

print @array;

#ends here
 


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