Robert am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 14.51: > I have a log file where the last portion of the events look like: > > Printer driver: (Lexmark T520) > > Where the portion in parens will change but it will always look like that.
If I guess right that you want to extract the portion in (), what about perldoc perlrequick perldoc perlretut perldoc perlre and my $line = 'Text at beginning of line Printer driver: (Lexmark T520)'; my ($printer)=$line=~/\((.*)\)\s*$/o; print 'Portion in (): ', $printer; greetings joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>