An input string like; $name_with_id = "Deiley, Sara Jr., 1234";
another example could be $name_with_id = "DEILEY SARA, Jr,. 123"; Two things are for sure in it always. 1- First part contains the alphabets (caps or small) with any number of commas and periods (full stops) in between or at the end. and then always a white space, followed by: 2- the last part contains the digit/number which could be 2 - 5 digits long. What I am trying to do is to split this string in two parts first part with alphatbets and second part with digits separately and assign them to two new variables i.e $name and $id. I am trying this; $name_with_id = "Deiley, Sara Jr., 1234"; split (/[^\d]+/, $name_with_id) = ($name,$id); print "name: $name and ID: $id"; Error: Can't modify split in scalar assignment at line 3; Any help or alternative way to do this. Thanks, Sara.
