in reply to Regex Question

I definitely recommend taking an in-depth look at perlretut.

For your current issue, I would use a regex that matches the beginning of a string (^) followed by 2 of any character (.{2}) and then an a:

/^.{2}a/

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Re^2: Regex Question
by shealyw2 (Initiate) on Nov 26, 2012 at 06:13 UTC
    Thank you, that just made all the other stuff i had read click. Also thanks for the link, always looking for new information to inhale.
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