See the codes below. The trick here is that $& is an special var used to capture the total match string. So in this case, the /[$&]/ regexp literal is equal to / [.type=xmlrpc&]/.
#!/bin/perl $url = 'http://abc.com/test.cgi?TEST=1&.type=xmlrpc&type=2'; ($r1) = $url =~ /\.type=(.+?)(&|$)/; print "\$&=$&\n"; ($r2) = $url =~ /\.type=(.+?)[$&]/; print "\$r1=$r1\n\$r2=$r2\n" __DATA__ $&=.type=xmlrpc& $r1=xmlrpc $r2=x -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
