On Jul 10, Jerry Preston said: >Jerry 2.7 4 4.5 mon >Mark -14 -10.75 -10 new > > /(\w+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(\w+)/;
Have you considered just using split()? my @fields = split; # or my ($name, $x, $y, $z, $whatever) = split; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>