On Apr 9, Nikola Janceski said: >@must = map { m/(.*)\/\*/; $1 } grep m/\/\*/, @recomp;
I'd do: @must = map m!(.*)/\*!, @recomp; The regex is in LIST context, so if it fails, () is returned. -- 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]