Thanks again Ray. Worked :) Wade
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:42, -ray wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2003, Wade wrote:
>
> > if ($text =~ /gecos: (.*?)/i) {
>
> The ? makes the regexp non-greedy so it matches the minimum number of
> times possible... maybe it's matching null for some reason. get rid of
> the question mark and it works, although i don't totally understand how
> the greediness works. in this instance, i would probably use a word
> boundary:
>
> if ($text =~ /gecos: (\w+)/i) {
>
> ray
