I have read about this before but it hadn't clicked. That helps clear up a 
lot of issues.

Thanks 

> something like
> if ($data =~ /User ([^ ]*)/)
> {
>   $username = $1;
> }
>
> what happends there is that it checks for the occurance of User then a
> space followed by 0-* nonspace chars. it puts the nonspace cars, ie the
> username in $1 since we hve the () around that part.
>
> you should read the documentation at 'perldoc perlre' and/or read books
> about perl. My guess is that it'd take you 5 mins of reading in learning
> perl to solve this problem.
>

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