It might help to say what module you found it in, since that would supply more context. Most generally, it looks like $RIDLINE is going to be put into a regular expression, perhaps something along the lines of
m/$RIDLINE/ If you are asking about the \s+ sort of notation, then you need to read up on regexes. Please see chapters 5 and 6 of Programming Perl 3rd Ed., Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions, and of course perldoc perlre Cheers, Nathanael Kuipers >===== Original Message From stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >what is the meaning of $RIDLINE = 'RID\s+=\s+(\d+-\d+-\d+)'; >i found it from the begin block of a module. > >thanks > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more >faith.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
