Hi everyone,
I'm very new to Perl.
I am trying to use it to convert data in a vrml file and store it in a cpp file. I have coordinate values within brackets I want to access within the vrml file. this would look something like this: 
    coord
            Coordinate {
                point [ 12 23 45,
                                        14 16 65]
                                   }

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the file contains several instances of the above structure but with different values.

I know I need to do a regexp match I read the file into an array @lines then did $lines = "@lines" to get a big string then I know i should try a regexp match and tried $lines =~/{.*}/g but it doesn't seem to work.

Can someone please give me a clue as to what regexp I could use?

and once I have that regexp, I want to store those coordinate values in a variable to be able to write them to a cpp file. how can I do that?

thanks heaps for any help.

P.

In reply to accessing specific data in a file by phoenixQueen

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