Steve wrote: > > From what I have read from The Camel $1 should contain the matched text. > From that matched text I want to then search for an additional string.
$1 contains the text matched in the first set of parentheses. > I have this in a file: > > Connect time 8.3 minutes > Connect time 100.1 minutes > (etc) > $line gets the whole line and from there I wanna place the numerical time > into a variable, so that 8.3 would be placed into $sum and then 100.1 added > into it so the total would eventually be in $sum. if ( $line =~ /Connect time ([\d.]+) minutes/ ) { print "$1\n"; $sum += $1; } John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]