On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dexter Casey wrote:

     > There are probably much better ways of doing this but how about
     > if  ($line =~ /(\\\\)(\w+)\\/){
     >     $server=$2;
     > }

($server=$line)=~s/\\\w*$//

Simpler, easier ;)

m4c.

     > 
     > Rgds
     > Dexter
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     > 
     > > I'm a little bit rusty on using regular expressions and need some help.
     > > Let's say that I'm given \\Server\Pathname as a text.  How would I extract
     > > "\\Server" from this and store it to a variable $server?
     > >
     > > Thanks,
     > > Jason
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