This sounds like the perfect time for a split()
my($var1,$var2) = split /#/,$line; perldoc -f split -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: a question of regular expression Dear all, I have a line like this: notepad test.txt # This is a test. I want to put seprate the line into two by "#", like var1 = "notepad test.txt" var2 = "This is a test." (I do not want to include # sign) How can I do? Thanks a lot inadvance! Lixin _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
