Re: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Boardman
t shows a >closer connection to the material in hand. I find that I find it much easier to >debug when I can look at the code and know exactly what the string I'm trying to >crunch should look like. > > Joseph > > Robert Boardman wrote: > > > Hi all > &

simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Boardman
Hi all I'm attempting to write my first perl script to parse a couple of lines and would appreciate some help extracting data from the folloing example Data: I want to extract 0021221235500 and 20021222001000 and carlton.com I have tried to to use pattern matching using =~ etc but cannot seem