Hi All,

I'm new to Perl, and to PM so gentle guidance is welcome! Having said that I do have many years on computers.

I am attepting to write a Perl script to retrieve an email from a pop3 mailserver. The email contains only one line of text that is comprised of 6 tab delimited data fields so I need to parse the 6 data values to a mysql data base. I've been able to connect to the server and download the email, and I know enough mysql to make that work .... but I can't do the simplest part in the middle, which is extract the 6 individual data values from the text! I'm willing to work at it, have googled and have good books, but still cna not figure out how to use regexp search and then assign variable names to the data values. Initially I'm just trying to print the variables to see if I got them.

Thanks for all suggestions.

Jim

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data file

1234567890123456 2004-07-10 14:47:39 51.12345 -1.12345

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my latest failing perl script! 

#!/usr/bin/perl

open (INPUT, "< data")
     or die "Couldn't open data file for reading: $!\n";

while (<INPUT>) {
$firstvalue =~ /(\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d)/;  # match first 16
+ digit value
      print $firstvalue #"This is the first parameter.\n";

}


close (INPUT);

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