and regexs are already giving me sores. It has been a long time since I wrote anything in Perl, and my rusty mind is not being very cooperative. Looking at the Camel book I sweat that this is correct, but perl keeps yelling at me.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

   my $ifconfig = `/usr/etc/ifconfig ec0`;
   my ($junk, $ip_address) = ($ifconfig =~ /(^.*\n.*inet\w)(d{1,3}\.\d
+{1,3}.\d{1,3})/);

   print "$junk $ip_address\n";

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When run, I get the following error:
ROOT 113 tech_support_4 //devel# ./net_config.test
Use of uninitialized value at ./net_config.test line 8.
Use of uninitialized value at ./net_config.test line 8.

I am sure that this is an easy question, and I greatly appreciate your responses. Be gentle. It is 3:30 on a friday afternoon, happy hour at my favorite bar, and I am at work...

In reply to Back in the saddle... by gnubbs

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