[TriLUG] regular expression

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

acoliver wrote:
> 
> Any one of you regular expression gurus have the answer to this
> 
> If I have this (coming line by line from stdin):
> $linein = 01072001/string.189.123123
> 
> What would the regular expression be to suck out '189'?

$val = (split(m:\.:, $linein))[1];
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