I want to catch the various parts of the output of the date command. Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $date = system("date"); $date =~ /(\w+)/; my $day = $1; print "Day: $day\n"; Here is my output: Thu Sep 8 10:22:14 CEST 2005 Day: 0 What is going on? Does this mean that nothing was captured? -Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>