You're using = instead of =~ on the line with the regex. That alone will make the script not work. Look in perlop and perlre for more information on =~ and regexes, if you're interested.

That regex looks awfully complicated to me. I think you should look into using split instead (in perlfunc). I can't say for sure whether this will work without seeing your input data, but it seems pretty likely given that all your regex contains is permutations of \W and \w.

One additional point, don't use while (defined(<>)). <> is always defined until end-of-file, and I don't think that form assigns the result of <> to $_. Use while (<>) instead.

Update: turns out = will do the right thing in this case, at least according to dragonchild (see next post). Oh well, it was probably the while (defined(<>)) bit anyway...

In reply to Re: How do i get the variables to actually get in here.... by blackmateria
in thread How do i get the variables to actually get in here.... by krujos

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