That is one way to do it, but maybe you should tell him what it is that the regex
does. I remember from my newbie days that it wasn't too useful when people just threw
regexes at me without explaining them because they look so daunting before you are
used to them.
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Subject: RE: split
HI all,
HI,
I want to grep only XXXX from $var , i want in a variable $y.
$var="Owner: XXXXX : rwx (all)";
$var =~ m/Owner: (\w{5})\s*: rwx \(all\)/;
$y = $1;
Chetak
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