Hello htmanning,

If the phone numbers are punctuated with spaces rather than hyphens, you will need a different strategy. Here is one such approach (which builds on aaron_baugher’s solution):

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;                  # Trim trailing newline

    my @apts = /[- \d]+/g;  # Get all sequences of digits, spaces, & h
+yphens

    s/^[ ]+ //x for @apts;  # Trim initial  spaces
    s/ [ ]+$//x for @apts;  # Trim trailing spaces

    @apts = grep { /^\d{3,4}$/ } @apts;     # Get 3- or 4-digit sequen
+ces only

    dd \@apts;
}

__DATA__
John Smith lives in Apts. 123 & 456, home number: 555-6666-7777
Please phone Jane Doe on 111 2222 3333. She lives in apartment 789 in 
+the Main building.
Please phone Janet Roe on 88899990123. She lives in apartment 100 in t
+he Main building.

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Output:

12:51 >perl 1211_SoPW.pl
[123, 456]
[789]
[100]

12:51 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Pull 3-digit and 4-digit numbers from string by Athanasius
in thread Pull 3-digit and 4-digit numbers from string by htmanning

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