Leon -- ...and then lz said... % % Hi David,
Hello!
%
% I do set the line, and thats why I am not sure, why it
% doesn't work:
%
% while ( $line = <STDIN> )
% {
% $idNumber = $line =~ /\((ID\d+)\)/;
% }
%
% print $idNumber; // empty
Very odd indeed. I rewrote my one-liner in your format and tried it and
it worked.
Oh! I get it! There's more than one line in the file, right? So you
first set idNumber because it matches, and then the next time (it's a
loop) it doesn't match and thus clears it, and so on.
You *probably* want something like
$idNumber = ...
last i $idNumber
to jump out of the loop once it has been successfully set. Try that and
let us know. Better yet, try last so that it works; I have no idea
whether or not that snippet will run :-)
%
% Thanks again!
HTH & HAND
:-D
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