On 13 Jul 2014, at 21:43, ESChamp <esch...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...lastname firstname other other other ... emailaddress > > I wish to write a new file that contains only the emailaddress field > contents.
Here’s an easily-understood way of doing it: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; while (<DATA>){ chomp; @_ = split / /; print $_[-1] . $/; } __DATA__ x x x a@b x x x x c@d x x e@f -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/