For whatever reason when I paste the example into the thread it doesn't display right..

But the results that I am getting is the user name "SmithB" then on the end of that it adds a square or carriage return, then adds a carrot "^" on the end of that.

I need to extract the username (without the carriage return and ^) and write that to a text file.

Here the whole script... I am creating a list of the parameters being passed. Then I need to take ARGV 7 and extract the user name minus the carriage return and /^

open (TEST,">c:/temp/argtest6.txt") or die "Failed to open argtest.txt
+ file";

$count = 0;
foreach $element (@ARGV) {
print TEST $count,$element;
$count += 1;
}

$user = lc("$ARGV[7]");
chomp ($user);
if ($user =~ "/^\........\d\$/\n") {
        print TEST ".. You have a match for $user /\n";
}
 else {
         print TEST "... NO match for $user /\n";
}

print TEST $user;
close(TEST)

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Sorry guys, I am new at this, so please bear with me.... And thanks for the help

Code tags and general formatting added by GrandFather

In reply to Re^2: help with REGEXP to remove carriage return and caret from end by Bennco99
in thread help with REGEXP to remove carriage return and caret from end by Bennco99

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