Hi: I am extracting some value from $complete_event as follows. What can I check to see if the extraction returned a valid value? "if($_)" seems to be giving incorrect values. In the following statement, $srcIp is being set to an old extracted value if there is no valid value following srcIP in my $complete_string instead of 0.
$complete_event =~ /srcIp=(.+) srcPort=/; if($_) {$srcIp = $1;} else {$srcIp = 0;} Thanks Ravi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>