On Mar 4, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said: >And then you'll want to remove the extraneous information. > > ($city, $state) = $addr =~ /\s*([^,]+),\s*([A-Z]{2})/;
I left the first comma out of my regex. ($city, $state) = $addr =~ /,\s*([^,]+),\s*([A-Z]{2})/; >>__DATA__ >>Tomy Savage:408-724-0140:1222 Oxbow Court, >>Sunnyvale,CA 94087:5/19/66:34200 >>Lesle Kerstin:408-456-1234:4 Harvard Square, Boston, >>MA 02133:4/22/62:52600 -- 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]