in reply to regex picking out a particular string

Heres a better way:
my $substring = (split( ';', $string))[2];

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Re^2: regex picking out a particular string
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2005 at 13:21 UTC
    Thank you all...that does help
Re^2: regex picking out a particular string
by nobull (Friar) on Feb 04, 2005 at 20:07 UTC
    my $substring = (split( ';', $string))[2];

    A regular expression should look line a regular expression.

    my $substring = (split( /;/, $string))[2];