in reply to regular expression function: grep, split, substr OR NO need?

For sure, grep, split and substr are immensely useful and expressive, you should definitely learn to use them, but I can't say whether any of them is appropriate for your specific problem at hand.

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Re^2: regular expression function: grep, split, substr OR NO need?
by virtuemart2 (Novice) on Sep 10, 2013 at 02:53 UTC
    thanks, I will read both
    http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions-by-cat.html

    http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=split