Randy, The code is still not working with the modifications that you listed earlier. The code does not have any compilation errors but does not show the results for the variables $1, $2 and $3. I was wandering if you could think of something else that is causing the problem.
#!C:\perl\bin\perl5.6.1 $file1 = ' C:\perl\bin\dummy.txt' ; open (INFO, "< $file1 ") or die "Can't open $file: $1"; while (<INFO>) { if (/2\.2\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/) { print " $1,$2, $3 "; }} close (INFO); Thanks, Sunny.. -----Original Message----- From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:57 PM To: Singh, Harjit Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trying To write a script Singh, Harjit wrote: > The following code is what I used to check if item number could be > detected for the file I sent in the earlier email. The code seems to > have failed and need a advise on it.. > A couple of suggestions/corrections: > > #!C:\perl\bin\perl5.6.1 use strict; use warnings; > $file1 = ' C:\perl\bin\dummy.txt' ; > > > open (INFO, "< $file1 ") or die "Can't open $file: $1"; > > while (<INFO>) This assigns each line in turn to the special variable $_ > { > > if ($test = ~ "/2\.2\./d+\./d+\./d+"){ so, matching against $test, which is undefined, does nothing. Also, the regular expression should not be in quotes. What you want to do is match the regular expression againg $_ and capture the data you want using the regular expression capture operator (). Using your above expression that would be something like: if ( $_ =~ /2\.2\.(/d+)\.(/d+)\.(/d+)/ ){ or since the $_ variable is implied, it can be shortened to: if ( /2\.2\.(/d+)\.(/d+)\.(/d+)/ ){ > > print " $test \n " ; }} Using the above captures, your results will now be in the variables $1, $2, & $3. > close (INFO); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>