Nick Diel wrote at Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:12:18 -0600: > I am having a hard time getting a regular expression to work the way i want > it to. Take the following text: bla bla bla (la la) bla bla (di da) > > I want to extract the la la to one variable and di da to antoher variable. > What I have tried so far is using match variables, but so far I am only able > to match either just la la or la la) bla bla (di da.
It would be better if you show us not only a description of your code, but your real code. The next will work: my @variable = $string =~ /\((.*?)\)/g; Now $variable[0] contains 'la la' and $variable[1] ' di da'. Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]