Hello Perl Gurus,
Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*) I have tried: local $/ =~ m/(.+?):(\d+):(.*)/; # But cannot change $/; local $/= /(.+?):(\d+):(.*)/; # Use of uninitialized value in pattern match m//. I am trying to process a logfile, with a time based entry as an entry identifier i.e. Wed Mar 31 11:40:45 2004 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 4636 Wed Mar 31 11:40:45 2004 Current log# 1 seq# 4636 mem# 0: x:\xxxxxx\xxxxx\xxx\xxxxxxx.LOG Wed Mar 31 11:40:46 2004 ARC0: media recovery enabled Your advice will be much appreciated! Denham
