Michael Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > print $input it will equal "Memory Usage: 1234;678;000;4567" > print $input =~ /(\d+);(\d+);(\d+);(\d+)/; it will produce "12346780004567" > > which may be confusing ... because what happens to $1 ? Remember because > "/(pattern)/" is supposed to assign the match to a $1 and $2 and so on. > It actually does ... it just gets printed with out any spaces.
use the field seperator variable, $, if you assign a string to this variable the output of the print function will more clearly show the individual values $1,$2,$3,etc. for example: $, = "\n"; print $input =~ /(\d+);(\d+);(\d+);(\d+)/; will print each of the values on their own line. Dave _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
