If I was taking all the digits out (result would be 123400), I would do: y/0-9//cd;
This takes all the characters not in [0-9] and deletes them. On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:58, William Black wrote: > Hello All, > > I need a regular expression to extract only the number from the below > string. How is this done? > > x=G1234v00 > > Result=1234 > > William Black > > _________________________________________________________________ > Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ -- Josà Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telbit - Tecnologias de InformaÃÃo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>