I'm trying to create a command prompt type where if you type in "ca something->somethingelse" it will split the ca from the rest, and then seperate the two strings. Then I want to store the something as a key in a hash I've already made keys and values for with somethingelse as the value. I already have code, but it's not working. I'm new to Perl, so it's probably something simple, but here it is... 
 if($current_input =~ /^ca\s\w+->\w+$/) {
    ($command, $temp) = split /\s/, $current_input, 2;
    ($key, $value) = split /->/, $temp, 2;
    $aliases{$key} = $value;
}

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thanx for your help - p u n k k i d

In reply to Regex with - by elusion

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