SPUG:Confused field parser seeks...

[John Subaykan]

This was the original poster's message.  You're right, the colons don't 
print out.

Also, I agree with the other response to this question, splitting on the 
colons is more straightforward than capturing $1 - $7.

John


----Original Message Follows----
Why do you have colons in your output when there are no colons in your
print statement?


 > This works as I expect it to:
 >
my $var="nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin";
 >
 > $var=~ /(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+):(.+)/;
 >
 >
 > print "$1  $2  $3  $3  $4  $5  $6  $7\n\n";
 >
 > it prints nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin

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