Thanks for all the help, I'll be sure and do that from now on. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:08 PM To: Fontenot, Paul Cc: Bob Showalter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: pattern extraction
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Fontenot, Paul wrote: > Thanks for the help. That did it, now if I could ask one more question > on this. How can I make the MS portion match either upper or lower case? Add the 'i' flag to your regex: my $mso = ( $row[2] =~ (m/MS\d\d\-\d{3}/i) ); For more, look at `perldoc perlre`, or any introductory Perl book that goes over how to use regular expressions. These are FAQs. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ np: 'Four6 (John Cage)' by Sonic Youth from 'Goodbye 20th Century' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>