SPUG:Confused field parser seeks...

[Aaron Paul]

I don't.  I just typed them out of habit. Sorry.
--- Tom Legrady <legrady at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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