ok.. I'm sorry... I was an idiot, i wasnt thinking, and i am sorry *cringe* this will extract the string (and the brackets)...
($b) = $a =~ /\(.+\)/g) -- Deen Hameedd, Accidental Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:30:56 +0530 (IST) From: Deen Hameed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hubert Ian M. Tabug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: string manipulation something like this should work... (@somearray) = split(/\(.*\)/, $a); On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Hubert Ian M. Tabug wrote: > Hi, > > Given the string $a = "xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx (Jan 12 > 1990 ......)", I wan't to selectively extract that part of the string > having the (Jan 12 1990 ...) and store it in an array. Can someone guide > me? > > > Thanks, > Hubert > > -- Deen Hameedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]