Nope..this won't work. Why don't you loop over the list and do a substring or pack as you know that you need to keep only the first 4 characters of each element?
-----Original Message----- From: Shaun Bramley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with regular expression Hi all, I'm just looking for some confirmation on my regx. I have a list ('1992', '1993 (summer)', '1995 fall') and what I want to do is keep only the first four characters. Will the regx work for me? @list =~ s/\s*//; Again will that turn the list into (1992, 1993, 1995)? as always thank you for your time and effort in helping me Shaun Bramley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
