Ryan Moszynski wrote: > i have this string extracted from a text file i'm writing a program > to process: > > test_freq = 1.0001; > > and i have to extract the "1.0001" > > i can't count on the whitspace being where it now is. > > I would like to change this line of perl > > $getTestFRQ =~ s/\D+//g; > > so that instead of killing all non digit characters, it will kill all > non digit characters except for the period. > > How do i do this? > if ( /=\s*([\d\.]+)/ ) { $MyNbr = $1; } if always with a ; then if ( /=\s*([^;\s]+)/ ) { $MyNbr = $1; } The first one would be my choice, but just a thought. > thanks, ryan
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