Steve wrote:
>
> From what I have read from The Camel $1 should contain the matched text.
> From that matched text I want to then search for an additional string.
$1 contains the text matched in the first set of parentheses.
> I have this in a file:
>
> Connect time 8.3 minutes
> Connect time 100.1 minutes
> (etc)
> $line gets the whole line and from there I wanna place the numerical time
> into a variable, so that 8.3 would be placed into $sum and then 100.1 added
> into it so the total would eventually be in $sum.
if ( $line =~ /Connect time ([\d.]+) minutes/ ) {
print "$1\n";
$sum += $1;
}
John
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