On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: > Bret Goodfellow [BG], on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 15:11 (-0600) > typed the following: > > BG> All right, I know how to do this in REXX because there is a word() > BG> function, but how do I do this in Perl. I want to read in one record at > BG> a time, that has space-delimited fields. There may be multiple spaces > BG> between the words. I want to be able to get for example, the 4th word > BG> of the record. How do I do this? Just for grins, my record looks like > BG> this: > > BG> /dev/sun11/lvol13 1032192 377921 613445 38% /techsupp > > use regular expressions, for example like this:
No, not like that. A regex in a split will be easier. my $fields = split( /\s+/, $record ); my $fourth = $fields[3]; This problem doesn't require any looping! :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
