I'm not having much luck with that :), probably using it incorrectly though.
Is this correct: my $mso = $row[2]( m/MS\d\d\-\d{3}/); or am I just way wrong on this one? -----Original Message----- From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:09 AM To: Fontenot, Paul Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pattern extraction Fontenot, Paul wrote: > If I have this: > <A > href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-045.asp" > target="_default">Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-045</A> > > Or this: > <A > href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/b > ulletin/MS02-045.asp" target="_default">Microsoft Security Bulletin > MS02-045</A> > > How can I get this: > MS02-045 m/MS\d\d\-\d{3}/ Why did I do \d\d and \d{3} both? because \d\d is shorter than \d{2} and \d{3} is shorter than \d\d\d plus it illustrates two ways of doing it :) See `perldoc perlre` for more details. HTH :) Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net > The actual pattern would be MS0?-??? where the "?" could be any number > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>