On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:11:20AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All,
Hello > I need help in regular expression. I have string as follows. > > OMS.FD.08.03.000.14 > > I need only OMS.FD.08.03.000 this much part of the string.i want to > exclude .14 > > Please help. That's not much of a spec. How far have you got? Perhaps one of these possibilities will help? $_ = "OMS.FD.08.03.000"; s/.14//; s/\.\d+$//; s/\..*$//; s/^((?:[^.*]\.){4}[^.]*).*/$1/; -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/