Thanks Jeff, that worked!!
one question, I am confused how you did that in this REg Exp:

/((?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})/

what is this part:  (?:\d{1,3}\.)
and this:    {3}\d{1,3}

I am lost....  jst want to understand, or if youwant to refer me to a page
on the Camel book I can look it up myself.   Thanks again!!
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:32 PM
To: Paul Jasa
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reg exp into variable
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On Sep 6, Paul Jasa said:

>How do I put something I am looking for, and find, with a reg expression
>INTO a variable?

You want to capture the specific part of the regex with ( and ), and then
set that equal to a variable.  There are two ways of doing that:

  if (/(pattern)/) {
    $x = $1;  # $1 is the first set of ()'s
  }

and

  ($x) = /(pattern)/;

So you probably want:

  if ($iplist =~ /((?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})/) {
    print "found $1\n";
  }

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