This is a very simple problem, and I feel pretty stupid asking. I have tried working thru this by reading the Regular Expression tutorial Perl doc, but I'm missing something here...

What I need to to match three characters from the middle of a string. For instance, the string 23D78000, I need to simply extract the D78 to input into a database table. My only stumbling point is the actual regexp match. Here is the latest of several things I have tried. Please don't hurt yourselves laughing...

$inq = "23D78000";
($junk, $emc_device, $junk1) = ($inq =~ /(\w\w)(\w\w\w*$/);

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2006-07-22 Retitled by Arunbear, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Simple regex matching problem...'

In reply to Match and extract three characters from the middle of a string by svnipp

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