On Aug 12, John W. Krahn said: >cat {thisfile} | perl -F'/' -ane'print $F[2]'
Useless use of 'cat', and you're missing a newline (which I assume you'd want). perl -F/ -lane 'print $F[2]' FILES... or perl -F/ -pale '$_ = $F[2]' FILES... -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]