Three hours later, I finally had a brainstorm, and came up with the idea to count the number of occurrences of the words I'm looking for. Here's what I came up with:
my $str = "PO Box 6545 / 3546 Termbo Street"; my $address_count = 0; $address_count++ while ($str =~ /box|street|avenue|lane|apo/ig); print "$address_count\n"; It's crude, and I know I'll have to tweak it, but it works. Is this approach O.K., or is there a better way to do it? Marc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/