is there a way to get the "nth" column of a string in perl, similar to
awk '{print $col_no}' in awk ?############################### There are multiple ways, but here are two examples: In the first example, split is what you need to pay attention to. In the second example, @F is the key here. $ perl -le 'my $string = qq(a b c d); print $string; print +(split)[2,3], for $string;' a b c d cd $ echo "a b c d"| perl -nae 'print "@F[2,3]\n";' c d __________________________________________________ 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/
