On Oct 23, Clinton said: >@first25 = grep{$_->[1] eq (/^MA\d+/)} @all;
You're asking about how to bind a pattern to a variable: $_->[1] =~ /^MA\d/ -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]