How to set a delimiter.

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Re: How to set a delimiter. by eg (Friar) on Dec 09, 2000 at 03:54 UTC
You probably want to use a question mark rather than a character class with the hyphen. if ( $info =~ /(hi\|lo)\s+-?\d{1,3}°F/i ) { # whatever } If you want to capture the actual temperature, you're going to need to put parens around `\d{1,3}` Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]