Dhiraj P Nilange wrote: > > Hi there Hello,
> I want to extract some word after space from some string. > Somebody from the mailing list had given me above > command. > > suppose I wanto extract 8th word... Perl arrays are indexed starting at zero (0) so the eighth word in an array would be index seven (7). > #suppose $abc has the string; > $abc=split[/\s+/]->[8]; #somebody told me like this. > > but it doesnt work. if i use some array in the split function like:- > > @array=split(/\s+/,$abc); > print $array[8]; > > this way it works. But I dont want to use array. Its newbie question actually. my $eighth_word = (split ' ', $abc)[7]; split() with a single space character instead of a regular expression is a special form of split (explained in perlfunc.) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
