I'm afraid I don't understand what you're trying to do. You said:

I want to match on the "2nd occurrence of a '.'"... and to retain the string up to that point…

That's all clear enough, but :

and then proceed to match the resultant string against whatever.

Are you using "resultant" to mean "remaining"? And what does "match against whatever" mean? Can you give an example of a "before" and "after" to make it clear? Something like "given this string as input: … I want to have one variable set to … and another set to … (and another set to …)"

As for your sample code, your "$master" only has two "."-delimited parts, so when you loop over it three times, the 2nd and 3rd iterations are the same. That certainly does seem pointless, but there's nothing in your post that says what the point is supposed to be.

In reply to Re: I think regex Should Help Here... but How!? by graff
in thread I think regex Should Help Here... but How!? by ozboomer

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