On Feb 28, Steven M. Klass said: >I want to create an array of names I don't yet know. Basically I have a >text file that does this > >.SUBCKT FOO blah blah >blah >blah >.ENDS > >.SUBCKT BAR blah blah >blah >blah >.ENDS > >I want my array to capture FOO BAR
I'd suggest using "\n.ENDS\n" as your record separator: open FILE, "< something" or die "can't read something: $!"; { local $/ = "\n.ENDS\n"; while (<FILE>) { And then extracting the first chunk of non-whitespace after ".SUBCKT": push @names, /^\.SUBCKT\s+(\S+)/; } } close FILE; -- 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]