Michael,
This might be safer:
$line=~/^([^-]*?)-/;
$everything_to_first_hyphen=$1;
Paul
I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm missing it - What's the regular
expression to extract everything from the start of the line to the
first hyphen?
Thanks!
Mike-
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