On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:35:25PM +0200, Denham Eva wrote: > Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression > such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*)
>From perlvar: Remember: the value of "$/" is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-) I await the reply from Yahoo saying I may not post to their groups :-( -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>