Resending because I never saw the message post. Sorry if duplicate. ========================
Try this #-------------------- my $text = "this is a website: www.hello-world.com and an e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; @found = $text =~ m/\s+((?:[\w\d\-\~]{2,}[@|\.](?:[\w\d\-\~]{2,}\.?)+))/g; print "Found something interesting:\n", join "\n", @found if @found; #-------------------- which uses the m//g operation in a list context. Explanation from the perlop manpage: The /g modifier specifies global pattern matching--that is, matching as many times as possible within the string. How it behaves depends on the context. In list context, it returns a list of the substrings matched by any capturing parentheses in the regular expression. If there are no parentheses, it returns a list of all the matched strings, as if there were parentheses around the whole pattern. In scalar context, each execution of m//g finds the next match, returning true if it matches, and false if there is no further match. The position after the last match can be read or set using the pos() function; see pos in the perlfunc manpage. A failed match normally resets the search position to the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that by adding the /c modifier (e.g. m//gc). Modifying the target string also resets the search position. Tim _____________________________________________ Tim Moose | T R I L O G Y voice (512) 874-5342 fax (512) 874-8500 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs