Mike Blezien wrote: > Hello, Hello,
> I'm trying to extract an image name from the follow html tag > > $imageURL = "<IMG SRC="picserve.cgi?picserve=/thebest_Small.png" BORDER=0>" > > now I need to extract the 'thebest_Small.png' filename from the img tag, > but havent't been able to figure out how to do this correctly. > > i tried: > $imageURL =~ !<IMG SRC="picserve.cgi?picserve=/(.*)" BORDER=0>!; > $pic = $1; > > but that produces errors. what I'm doing wrong here ?? You are trying to use the match operator incorrectly. Only the delimiters // and ?? can be used without the 'm' in front. $imageURL =~ m!<IMG SRC="picserve.cgi?picserve=/(.*)" BORDER=0>!; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
