Ah ha!!! Thank you - thank you - thank you! I completely missed that on all twenty rereads of the example. I guess this is where experience starts to build - remembering past mistakes and understand *exactly* how functions work. :)
Tom Carroll Dataware Computers -----Original Message----- From: Keith Woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:42 PM To: Tom Carroll Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl programmers - help for a lowly unworthy newbie Tom, <snip> $name =~ s/W.*//; # get rid of everything after </snip> in the above, 'W' should be '\W' (<backslash>W). \W stands for any character that is not a "word" character. word characters are [a-zA-Z_0-9]. -Keith -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
