Dude that doesn't work. You are substituing white space for the word you are trying to
match and store in $server. Am I missing something. That just returns the count of
matches.
Rgds
Dexter
Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dexter Casey wrote:
>
> > There are probably much better ways of doing this but how about
> > if ($line =~ /(\\\\)(\w+)\\/){
> > $server=$2;
> > }
>
> ($server=$line)=~s/\\\w*$//
>
> Simpler, easier ;)
>
> m4c.
>
> >
> > Rgds
> > Dexter
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > 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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