in reply to Simplify This

Try this:
use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $record = " 100.100.100.100 1COMPUTER1 09/13/30828 22:48:0 +5"; my @iparray = split(/\./, ($record =~ /^\s+([\d\.]+?)\s/)[0]); print Dumper \@iparray; __OUTPUT__ $VAR1 = [ '100', '100', '100', '100' ];

- Tom