On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:00, "Sharan Basappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
I was just trying to match a string and save it in a single statement
as follows:
$extracted = "cp xyz";
$state_var = $extracted =~ m/cp\s+(.*)/;
print "$state_var $1 \n";
The output is: 1 xyz
So the assignment to $state_var does not work. Is this an incorrect
way.
Regards
In scalar context a match returns true if it matches or false if it
doesn't. You want to use list context to cause the match to return
the captures:
($var) = $foo =~ /(blah)/;
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