Re: extracting a string from between parens

[bob ackerman]

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 08:48  AM, Shishir K. Singh wrote:

>> $out = $1 if ($in =~ /\((.*?)\)/);
> Nope..won't work..I take it back!!
>

looks ok to me. except it adds extra strokes to previous answer.
what do you think is wrong with it?