On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Sharan Basappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I was just trying to match a string and save it in a single statement > as follows: > > $extracted = "cp xyz"; > $state_var = $extracted =~ m/cp\s+(.*)/; > print "$state_var $1 \n"; > > The output is: 1 xyz > > So the assignment to $state_var does not work. Is this an incorrect way. > > Regards > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > If it doesn't work I guess it is a wrong way. :-) What you are doing is this: Try and match $extracted to /cp\s+(.*)/ (the result bing true or false) and then asiging the result to $state_var (true in your example als so written as 1. The actual matched value (the stuff between the backets) is stored in $1 so when you print $state_var and $1 you will see the output that you are indeed getting. What you want to do to get the matched string stored in $state_var is this: $extracted = "cp xyz"; $extracted =~ m/cp\s+(.*)/; $state_var = $1; print "$state_var\n"; Rob.
