Hi Monks

I postes in chatterbox but thought to post a more accurate picture of what I am trying to accomplish Thank you for your time

I am tryning to match in $record CPOSTA_1221170039_C1_F1 but it includes the whole path when it matches

This is what I match => 49\backup\rbgmst02_dd2\stu1\CPOSTA_1221170039_C1_F1

how do I get it not to include the \ and why does it match the \ for interest sake?

I have tried [^\\] but it then just does not match anything

$record = "FRAG 1 1 2000000 0 0 0 0 \\\\172.20.13.49\\backup\\rbgmst02
+_dd2\\stu1\\CPOSTA_1221170039_C1_F1 rbgmst02 65536 0 0 -1 0 *NULL* 12
+22379639 1 65537 0 0 0 0 0 0 0";

if($record =~ m|FRAG|)
{
    if($record =~ m|([A-z0-9]+[_][0-9]+[_]C[0-9]+[_][A-z0-9]+)|)
    {
        #print $2."\n";
        push(@netbck_list,$1);

        print $1."\n";

    } #if($record =~ m|FRAG(.*?)\/([A-z0-9_-]+[_][0-9]+[_]C[0-9]+[_][A
+-z0-9]+)|)
    else
    {
        #print "FRAG RECORD NOT MATCHED => $record \n";
    }
} #if($record =~ m|FRAG|)

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