On Jan 3, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC said: >I hope this serves as an answer . . .
Ok, I see. Then in your case, you'd probably want to do something like: for (split /\n/, $buffer) { ($field, $value) = split /\s*:\s+/; $field =~ s/^\s+//; $value =~ s/\s+$//; # do whatever } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]