Kristofer, you might want to check out the man page's perlrequick and perlre- I found them pretty useful when I was first learning regex (the man page perlretut isn't bad either).
Either way, try this; my $string = '(608)-555-1234'; $string =~ /\((\d+)\)-(\d+)-(\d+)/; this results in $1=608, $2=555, $3=1234; For extracting a match in a regex, you just enclose it in parenthesises... perl dumps it then to var's $[1-9]. One thing to consider is if a match isn't found- unless I'm mistaken, perl won't do anything to the $[1-9] match variables leaving the variables with there previous values. Something to watch/test for... ~Brian On Wednesday 26 June 2002 11:21, Kristofer Hoch wrote: > Hi all, > Please forgive the simple nature of this question. I have never really > used regular expression extensivly. > > Here goes. I am trying to extract a number from in between two > parenthesis. I want the first value I find (from right to left) in a > string. These numbers could be phone number area codes, or comments. > > Could someone please help, so that I can shamelessly use it all over the > place? > > Thank you > Kristofer. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
