Curt Shaffer wrote: >> >> >> Uri> post the output line from that command. do not let your emailer mung it >> or word wrap it. show the part you want to extract out. there may be >> easier ways to get it with a regex and not with split. > > I think you may be right. I would like to pull the numerics out from the id= > section. > > Sample output: > > #begin code output
Using the first example (forgive the wrap): my $ping_result = "HPING www.microsoft.com (en1 207.46.19.190): S set, 40 headers + 0 data bytes len=46 ip=207.46.19.190 ttl=64 DF id=21409 sport=80 flags=SA seq=0 win=5840 rtt=102.8 ms"; > # As seen above, what I am looking for is pulling the id= field $ping_result =~ m{ .* id=(\d+) }xms; my $ping_id = $1; print "$ping_id\n"; % ./id.pl 21409 Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/