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Timothy Johnson wrote: >> From: Keenan, Greg John (Greg)** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> <snip> >> >> my @oput2 = /\b([0-9]+)%/; >> >> <snip> > > Just for starters, a regular expression should use the =~ operator, not > the = operator. > > You might have seen some examples like this: > > while(<INFILE>){ > if($_ =~ /mybigregularexpression/){ > Do something... > } > } > > Check out 'perldoc perlre'. The OP's example isn't using the =~ operator because it is implied that: my @oput2 = /\b([0-9]+)%/; Is short for: my @oput2 = $_ =~ /\b([0-9]+)%/; Also the binding operators (=~ and !~) aren't used by regular expressions. Regular expressions are the stuff between the match operator delimiters (//) and in fact the binding operators can be used with the tr/// operator which doesn't use regular expressions at all. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
