--- Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> . . .
> I have a string like this:
> $string1 = "[%a %H:%M:%S %c] - - etc.etc.etc";
>
> I need to parse out all the substrings that are similar to "%x"
> (where x is any letter)
If you sepcifically need an alpha character, you might try
@x = $string1 =~ /%([a-z])/ig; # letters only, case insensitive.
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