Help!<BR><BR>I'm trying to write a script that will extract a snippet of text from a string and save it as a variable for use in a later command. The script is in perl.<BR><BR>Basically, I'm trying to ...

I have a text file and I'm trying to search for lines that have the text "optionvalue 51" I thought I'd call up a simple one line perl command to find this and print to the screen (or output file), ...

A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text. Perl has long been an extremely popular choice for text ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins, but Perl is still one of my favorites for doing any work that involves regular expressions — any text that you can describe ...