On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 06:16 , Jorge Goncalvez wrote: [..] > > And I wanted to extract Guest (without the quotes)i tried this:
that could be your problem - the /PATTERN/i - is for 'case insensitive' - hence would catch both DOG and dog or dOg.... [..] > > > It didn't worked why? What's wrong in my code? > thanks. may I offer the alternative approach of say: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/ParseConfigFile.txt if you are going to do the IO to open the file, read it all into a hash..... and then worry about what to do with the details of the hash as time goes by. You'll notice that I am 'cheating' by using the Inline::Files to virtually implement my file - but that is not that ugly. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]