I ran into the following Regular expressions, but am unable to quite understand what each of these mean: Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am fairly new to PERL. 1) $abc=~/my_sdk\s+\-name\s+\{(\S+)\}\s+\-pid\s+(\S+)\s+\-wfm\s+\{\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*\}.*/gi) 2) $line=~/(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+(\(\((.*)\)|no_value)\s+(\(\((.*)\)|no_value)\s+(\(\((.*)\)|no_value)\s+(\(\((.*)\)|no_value)\s+\{\s*(\S+)\s*\}$/) Thanks PN __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]