Okay, I'm about to break the habit of a lifetime and answer this. I think your initial post on this matter was here. If it isn't your post it's still the same basic question so your answer should be there.
Now I've been useful a couple of hints. If you're going to be asking questions it's worth registering a username so you can easily go back and view your own posts, and also it's definitely worth noting down useful tips in a notebook or something (Yes, a paper one. No CPU needed).
Now for a quick check.. I think you've managed to mangle your question somewhere, or do you really have an enviroment variable called (not 'with the value of', but called) 'Mike Wallace'?
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actually, the poster specified (my code tags for clarity) $user = $ENV {'Mike', 'Wallace'};, which is not a valid way to recover a single key from %ENV.
either he's looking for an array of environment vars (not likely), in which case he'd specify @ENV, or he's looking for a key named Mike', 'Wallace (which is valid on Win32,) which is referenced by $ENV{'Mike\', \'Wallace'}. NOTE: this is platform specific--i can't find a way to set an environment variable with quotes on solaris or cygwin.
either way, Anonymous Monk probably meant what you said.
~Particle *accelerates*
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It is a valid way, and is Perl's way of doing 'Multidimensional hashes' without hitting hashes of hashes. Admittedly $; isn't normally space, but such is.
In Programming Perl 2nd Ed this is all on Page 133, my 3rd Ed. is at home at the moment I'm afraid so I can't give page reference in that.
The following code actually works.. which is somewhat scary when it's simply not What You Mean, as I don't think it is in this case.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'} = 'Molt';
print $ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'};
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s/\s*//g; will remove all the whice space in your var, as to your specfic one, you could do something like (split /\,/,$user)[1] Which would return the word after the second comma and before the third (if there is one). And have you tried super search? | [reply]
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$data=" abc "
# Remove all spaces
$data=~ s/ //g;
Output - abc
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