Fellow Monks,

I have a text file that has about 50-60 columns showing some kind of a report separated by spaces. and I want to capture some of the variables w/o typing in the whole reg. expression.

my question is, if I concatenate it, can i still capture the i'th element? I tried it but $3* and $4* come up with empty strings....any suggestions?

if ($line =~ /^([A-Z]{3})-([A-Z])!?((\s+)(\S+)){27}/m) {
    $a = $1;
    $b = $2;
    $c = $4;
    $d = $5;
    $e = $13;
    $f = $33;
    $g = $35;
    $h = $49;
    #do stuff here;
}

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thanx

2006-05-17 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'calling reg exp gurus'

In reply to Capturing columnar data from a text file by rhxk

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