Thnks for the reply, I am receiving IP value as 192.168.10.5/ - From here , i wanted to filtered out the exact ip. i tried your example , but it didnt work. please help
----- Original Message ---- From: yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: luke devon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Perl <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 19:55:36 Subject: Re: Filtering contetn in a variable On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, luke devon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am storing IP in to a varable , $ip="172.22.8.10 \-"; > but i wanted to filter out only the ip . how can i do that ? please help > Thank you > Luke $ip =~ /(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})/; $ip = $1; Or you can use [0-9] in place of \d to avoid catching the non-[0-9] that \d includes. Though \d looks cleaner IMHO. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com