On Apr 2, Michael Stearman said: >Michael 57 3 > >I want to assign each of these three to different variables. My only >problem is that the word and the numbers are always different and the space >between the words and numbers is always different as well. Does anyone know >how I would assign the word and numbers to three different variables?
I'd just use split() instead of some ugly complex regex. my ($name, $val1, $val2) = split ' ', $string; -- 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]
