Anyway, it's sorted out now, and the versions now appearing in my original followup are correct, still with the limitations I mentioned before.

Thanks again for the regexes but I can't seem to get them to work..either of them. I must be doing something wrong, can you or anyone else take a quick look to see what it might be? It's still use of uninitialized value errors.

$/="====\n\n";

open (READFROM, "$readfrom") or die "Cannot open $readfrom: $!";

open (WRITETO, ">$writeto") or die "Cannot open $writeto: $!";

while ( <READFROM> ) 
{ 
  chomp; 

$_ =~ m/\$
    (?:\d{1,3},?)+
    (?:\.\d{0,2})?
    (?![.\d])
/x;

my $price = "$2";
print "$price\n";

}

close (WRITETO) or die "Cannot close $writeto: $!";

close (READFROM) or die "Cannot close $readfrom: $!";
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Ah, it's the capturing. I used non-capturing parens. Wrap capturing parens around the guts of each RE and you'll have it... but you'll then find the value you want in $1.

Also, don't rely on $1 unless you've verified that there actually was a match.

Sorry for the confusion. Hope this helps.

Just to clarify, here's the money RE with capturing parens:

print "$1" if m/
                 (
                    \$
                    (?:\d{1,3},?)+
                    (?:\.\d{0,2})?
                    (?![.\d])
                 )
               /x;
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Note the capturing parens surrounding everything else, as well as the conditional 'if' to prevent your relying on $1 unless the match really occurred.

If you don't mind the performance hit, you could have also avoided the capturing parens by using the $& special variable.




Dave