checkout perlre or do a search on regular expressions
-----Original Message----- From: wahlstros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:04 PM To: John W. Krahn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question where can i find a decent man page for understanding string pattern matching >> push @phone, /\s(\d+\s\d+\s\d+):/; ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Re: newbie question > Anidil Rajendran-Raj wrote: > > > > Firstname Lastname 650 156 7190:somfield:somefield:somefield > > Firstname Lastname 408 256 7290:somfield:somefield:somefield > > Firstname Lastname 510 3456 7390:somfield:somefield:somefield > > > > I have the above lines in a file and I am trying to create an array of = > > phone numbers > > > > open (FILE,"thefile") or die; > > You should include the file name and the $! variable in the error > message. > > > @array =3D <FILE>; > ^^^ > This is not a valid operator > > > my @phone; > > for each $string (@array) { > ^^^^ > each() works with hashes, not scalars, you want to use my() here > > > $phone[$i] =3D ($string =3D~ /\s\d+\s\d+\s\d+:/) ; > ^^^ ^^^ > Again, this is not a valid operator. > > > $i++; > > } > > > > This does not work, what am I doing wrong? or it there a better way? > > > open FILE, 'thefile' or die "Cannot open 'thefile': $!"; > my @phone; > while ( <FILE> ) { > push @phone, /\s(\d+\s\d+\s\d+):/; > } > > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
