Hi

*Sorry this is rather simple, but RegEx is my weakest points

I have lines like this: 
CFD123_TRE_MXD
TRD981_GHD_MXW
.
.
.

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And I only want to capture the numbers in the string. i.e 
123
981

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I tried this code: 
($var) =~ /^[^a-z]+([0-9]+)/;
print "$1\n";

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By which i mean; scan from left to right, from the begining of the string, ignore multiple alphabetical chars, grab multiple digits, save it to memory. However it doesn't seem to work

Can some one please enlighten me on how I can do this.

Thanks

********* UPDATE ******************

Ok I did this 
$var =~ s/([0-9]+)//g;

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it returned the right values, but still wondering if there is a better way for doing this - without destroying the original string?
Blackadder

In reply to Help with regEX by blackadder

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