> | Given the string: | | $a = "xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx (Jan 12 1990 ......)" | | I want to selectively extract that part of the string | having the (Jan 12 1990 ...) and store it in an array. | Can someone guide me? : : something like this should work... : : (@somearray) = split(/\(.*\)/, $a); :
Err... that split will not work as required. It would return the following: $somearray[0] = "xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx "; $somearray[1] = ""; since instead of the standard space, it'd take everything from the first to the last brackets as the seperator! The following should work as expected: my ($date) = $line =~ /\(([^\)]+)\)$/; my @date = split / /, $date; Take care, Jonathan Paton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
