SPUG:Confused field parser seeks...

[Brian Hatch]

> my $var="nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin";
> 
> $var=~ /(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+)/;

Any reason you don't just want to use

	($username,$uid,$gid.....) = split /:/, $var;

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