Ok, I shouldn't have put dots there - I wasn't trying to use it as a perl wildcard, more like a "etc" which I did not make clear. I had used .* but only got one mac address and one ipaddress. The question isn't related to what goes between the captures but more about whether the two captures can be sent to the arrays. If you have a link for me to read about that, I would be grateful. I don't think writing about making stuff up is useful for feedback although I understand that I should have not use the three dots and used something else to indicate that that wasn't what I was concerned about in that particular post.

In reply to Re^4: Slurping file using regular expressions for array or variables by firefli
in thread Slurping file using regular expressions for array or variables by firefli

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