>>>>> "EL" == Erik Lewis <ele...@ngrl.org> writes:
EL> On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Rob Dixon wrote: >>> $itemlocation = $_ =~ m/^UT(.*?)^/; >> my ($itemlocation) = $_ =~ m/\^UT(.*?)\^/; EL> Thanks Rob, that changed the result EL> D20010102093000111R,1 EL> D20010102093000111R,1 EL> Which I guess is the true value of the match, any idea on how to EL> make it return the contents of the match? are you sure you used his code? it will not return the boolean result but the grabbed part. he fixed your regex by escaping the ^ chars which normally match the begining of the string or line. the parens around the variable are important as they put the regex into list context and that will return the grabbed parts. so show the code that you ran that got you the 1 values. i bet you didn't put the parens in. you probably did escape the ^ chars as you are getting a true match value unlike your original code. also you don't need the $_ =~ as the regex will default to matching against $_. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
