On May 10, FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT said: >This string can be various in length ? Note it doesnt end with that >delimiter. Help > > $jims = "!23!45!67
You could use split(), but you'd have to get rid of the first (empty) element. Instead, I would suggest the following regex: while ($string =~ /!([^!]*)/g) { my $num = $1; # ... } -- 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 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]