Thread: need perl help
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Old March 4th, 2003, 04:31 PM     #2 (permalink)
SpookyEddy
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Sounds like you have the general idea, you could just split the line around : and then check the first field against a simple regexp to see if it matches you criteria. I can hack together some super ugly code for you when I get home if you want, but be warned that I also suck at Perl

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