yeah, yeah, yeah, here she is:
$DS{$chr}{name} =~ m/([a-z]+)\-(.+)/;
$firsthalf = $1;
$secondhalf = $2;
> I'm not particularly good with perl.
>
> I have a string $DS{$chr}{name} which is "pyrite-cpu-util" I'd like two
> strings, one containing the "pyrite" and another the "cpu-util" (that
> is, I want to split the string on the first occurance of a dash)
>
> probably as soon as I post this I'll stop being lazy and figure out how
> to do it myself ...
>
> ideas?
>
> mrb
>
> maybe some regular expression like
>
> ([a-z]+)\-(.+)
>
>
>
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