On Feb 14, Bill Akins said: >I have a string that is read in and assigned to a veriable. String >looks something like this: >10.00 c$cpi c$ul (Sample Number:) c$sh /Courier 0 c$fnt ( >SA-01-0C8A8) c$sh ( ) c$sh /Courier 0 c$fnt > >I need the string between the second set of ()'s. There may or may not >be a leading space, if so, I need to strip it out. There are not the >exact same number of charecters in the string, the only thing constant >is the value I need is in the second set of ()'s.
You can match it like so: my ($second_paren) = ($string =~ /\((.*?)\)/g)[1]; or my ($second_paren) = ($string =~ /\(([^)]*)\)/g)[1]; -- 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. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
