Hi, I have problem putting the match into an array,
$ more sample.tex aaa\cite{dehydron,dehydron1},ddd bbb\cite{inhibitorAromaticDirect}aaa open my $fh, '<', "sample.tex"; while(<$fh>){ if(/cite\{(\S+)\}/){ $cited = sprintf "%s\n",$1; #$cited =~ tr/\,/\n/; @citeditems = split(/\,/,$cited); push(@items,@citeditems); @items = join " ", @items; } } close($fh); print $items[-1]; shows: dehydron dehydron1 inhibitorAromaticDirect I wish dehydron dehydron1 inhibitorAromaticDirect to be independent item of the array. sorry for last postings, I really stuck here. Thanks with best regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/