--- "Grossner, Tim X. (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would I do this:
>
> file A contains a line of characters always looking like "hostname
> XXXXX".
> I want to take the XXXXX and assign that to a scalar...I tried making
> an
> array out of it by using grep to search for the line starting with
> "hostname", but then the one and only element of the array is
> "hostname
> XXXXX" and I cant figure out how to extract the XXXXX out...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
try
while(<YOURHANDLENAMEHERE>) {
($somescalar) = /hostname\s+(\w+)/;
# other code as needed . . .
}
The parens around $somescalar are necessary. =o)
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