Hi perlcapt

The split I was using had the third parameter, (number of parts to split into) set to two. This prevents it eating any tabs beyond the first so any in the title are no problem. I think it has to remain the prefered option for efficiency as long as the file is all either blank lines or docs and tittles seperated by a tab.

In my regex I included the litteral .DOC to improve rejection of spurrious lines though of course I am assuming no .XLS or .PPT files. I did make a couple of errors though... 

# I gave
/^([\S]*.DOC)\t(.*)/

# the class grouping [] for \S is of course silly and
# I forgot to escape the . in .DOC
# this would have been better
/^(\S*\.DOC)\t(.*)/

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Cheers,
R.

In reply to Re^3: searching a file, results into an array by Random_Walk
in thread searching a file, results into an array by Anonymous Monk

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