Hi

I am looking for a better way to perform the double split operation.

My requirement is to extract the date from the following table :

Timestamp 10.72.218.82:cpu_busy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2009-11-05 17:59:52 1.501

The table is taken into a scalar variable.Hence, split is performed twice :
1: split on newline.
2: split on one or more spaces.
The code that i have written to achieve this seems to be very basic : 

 my @output =   split(/\n/,$cmd_output);

 my @return_values = split(/\s+/,$output[-1]);

 my $date = $return_values[0];

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Is there a better way to perform a double split operation?

Is there a better way to extract the date from the table?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Better way to perform "double split" ? by perlpal

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