in reply to regex: extract a substring

Thanks for the help! I did need to maintain the value of $foo - my final code was 
$value =~ /$header:_:(.*?):_:/;
$data = $1;
push(@rows, $data);

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Works great :)

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Re: regex: extract a substring
by sfink (Deacon) on May 24, 2002 at 04:16 UTC
    Then why not just push(@rows, $value =~ /$header:_:(.*?):_:/);
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