> > 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. >
The correct way is ever so close to that #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $extracted = "cp xyz"; my ($state_var) = $extracted =~ m/cp\s+(.*)/; print "$state_var\n"; --L -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
