maybe you can do something like: ($text) = ($text =~ /([0-9]+)/);
Before printing the text. > -----Original Message----- > From: sudhindra k s [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help on output formatting > > > > Hi > > I have a script which the following output: > > " abc 123456 xyz > > " > > Now as you can see apart from the number "123456" there are a > lot of blank spaces and some aplha characters as well. Now i > want the output to be only "123456" without the white spaces, > blank lines and characters. > > How do i acheive this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > Sudhindra > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
