fellow monks,

I'm trying to split up the following:

Company Says It Can Derive Stem Cells From the Placenta

By NICHOLAS WADE

A New Jersey company said that it had developed a method to extract a novel kind of stem cell from the placenta.

into distinct scalars for each section ...title, author and abstract. I tried to assign each region to scalars $1, $2 and $3 by defining the word boundry \b and three white spaces using the following code
if ($article =~ /\b(.*?)\s{3,}/gsm){
$title = $1;
$author = $2;
$abstract = $3}

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I got the title out ($1) but got nothing for scalars $2 and $3. I figure I'm doing something very simple wrong here, but don't know where to turn in my early days learning perl. any help is warmly welcomed.

cdherold

In reply to Assigning text sections to scalars by cdherold

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