The following snippet will print out the first token of each
line in the file try.asc
The first parameter to split contains the token seperators, in this
case just space ASCII 040 
$file = "try.asc";
open(MYFILE, $file) or die qq(Cannot open $file\n);
          $line = <MYFILE>;
          while ($line ne "") {
                  @tokens = split / /, $line;
                  print qq($tokens[0]\n);
                  $line = <MYFILE>
          }

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Hope this helps

In reply to Re: Help for awk/regex/newbie by ColtsFoot
in thread Help for awk/regex/newbie by cmenser

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