Right now I'm playing around with matrices and PDL. I have some code that will do SVD on a matrix ($a, $b, $c) = svd($matrix), the results for $b looking like this 
[0.97069051 0.57504129 0.09337227 0.012809204]

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What I am now trying to do is to extract the three values from matrix b and assign them as three different variables. My first thought was to copy the contents of the matrix into an array and then use substr. This works up to a point but the finished program will be dealing with a number of matrices for which svd will have to be performed, so a general substr approach wont work (as the number of decimal places will vary with each calculation). I'm guessing that I might be able to extract the data using regular expressions instead? Any suggestions much appreciated

In reply to Extracting info from matrix by Angharad

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