Glad to hear that you can proceed further!

The solution from NetWallah looks fine to me.

I added a line to make it clear that the foreach() in my code does use an @variable. And I showed the idioms for deleting whitespace before and after a "line". Anyway, very happy that you can proceed further! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $line = "this- is-aline  - one-  two  ";
my @array = split (/-/,$line);
foreach (@array)
{
   s/\s+$//g;  #throw away tailing whitespace
   s/^\s+//g;  #throw away leading whitespace
   print "$_\n";
}
__END__
PRINTS:
this
is
aline
one
two

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In reply to Re^3: extracting names between symbols by Marshall
in thread extracting names between symbols by aka_bk

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