Brent Clark [BC], on Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 12:33 (+0200) contributed this to our collective wisdom:
BC> Im trying to get the numbers before the hyphen BC> e.g. BC> 75664545-bookings BC> Can I use index() for this ? yes, you can use index for find index of "-" and after using substr to extract that. perldoc -f index perldoc -f substr but power of perl is in regular expressions, so I'd use them: my ($result) = "75664545-bookings" =~ /([^-]+)/; ^^-- extract everything to $result what is before "-" if extracted part is always numbers I should use: my ($result) = "75664545-bookings" =~ /(\d+)-/g; -- How do you protect mail on web? I use http://www.2pu.net [I sure get a kick outta that Beavis & Butthead show! -Primus] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
