Hello all, it has been a while for me. You were all a huge help with my last project.

This is actually a follow-up of that same project, and while I feel that this should be simple I cannot find (or don't know enough to adapt) a solution online. I have a text file with a line (there will only ever be a single line that matches) like this:

N1*PE*COMPANY NAME INC*XX*123456~

**edit: on Windows using Strawberry Perl with a .pl script** I need to extract the number at the end of this line, excluding the tilde, and add it to a variable so that $number = 123456. So far I have only been able to come up with the match regex, but I'm not sure how to get the text at the end. So far I have this which gives the entire line:

perl -ne "print if /INC\*XX\*/" cr835.txt

Inside my perl script I assume that I will use something like this, but of course including any recommended code changes:

my $number = "perl -ne "print if /INC\*XX\*/" cr835.txt";

My end goal is to detect this number and use it to rename the file. I already have the code tested for renaming the file with a timestamp and I just need help populating this variable.

Thanks a bunch!

peridicalcoder

In reply to Print text on the same line after match by periodicalcoder

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