[vox-tech] dumb perl question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

i know i should know this by now...

how does one get assignments out of a backreference from a regex match?

in other words, can statements like this

	`wc -l $file` =~ m/\s*(\d+) .*/g;
	$NumberOfPoints = $+;

or this:

	/(\d+).*/;
	$temperature = $+;

be condensed into single line statements?  when i do something like:

	$temperature = /(\d+).*/;

the /(\d+).*/ produces a "1".  i imagine that simply means "yes, i was
able to match the regex".

pete

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