split is one way<br><br>But if you prefer regex:<br>my $fl1="3321-1.pdf";<br>my ($pref,$suff,$ext) = ($fl1 =~ m/(\w+)-(\w+)\.(\w+)/);<br><br>-imran<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Richard Reina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@rushlogistics.com">richard@rushlogistics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I know I should no this, but I don't and was wondering if someone could enlighten me. I have some scalars that represent filenames and look like this<br>
<br>
my $fl1=3321-1.pdf<br>
my $fl2=3321-2.pdf<br>
my $fl3=3432-1.pdf<br>
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I can get everything before the "-" like this:<br>
$fl2=~s/\-.*//; # get the root of the filename<br>
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but how can I do it without changing the contents of the original scalar? I'd like to put the result directly in a new scalar.<br>
<br>
$root_name= $f12=~s/\-.*//; # get the root of the filename<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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