I am trying to feed a sting in that is read from <> I want the values to take on the values come in but I cant figure out what I am doing wrong here. They are always blank. This is a homework assignment, and I am not asking for someone to do it for me but rather make a suggestion or tell me if I am using regular expressions totally wrong. Thanks 
    while (defined(<>))
    {
        chomp $_;
        ($name,$status,$class,$major,$po,$phone,$advisor,$email)=    /
+(\w+).*(\w+)\W\W*(\w+)\W\W*(\w+)\W\W*(\w+)\W\W*(\w+)\W\W*(\w+)\W\W+(\
+w+)\W+/;    
        print "$name\n";
        write OUTPUT;
    }
    close (OUTPUT) || die "cant close $!";

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this is my input file well part of it. It all appears on one line in the file.And yes the person in the file is me and I am not putting some poor guys deal online....

Kruck, Joshua David Registered JR Psychology 1065 555-555-5555 Johnson, Andy Jay joshua-kruck@XXYZ.edu

In reply to How do i get the variables to actually get in here.... by krujos

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