On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, luke devon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am storing IP in to a varable , $ip="172.22.8.10 \-"; > but i wanted to filter out only the ip . how can i do that ? please help > Thank you > Luke
$ip =~ /(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})/; $ip = $1; Or you can use [0-9] in place of \d to avoid catching the non-[0-9] that \d includes. Though \d looks cleaner IMHO. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/