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Hi all,
How to select the first word from a scalar variable.

ex: $a = "Hi all" :study:

There's a million solutions to this problem, depending on what you're going to do afterwards - you may use split for example and put all words into an array or use a reg ex and just grab the first word ..

@allwords = split(' ', $yourscalar); <-- split at spaces
print $allwords[0]; <-- just the first word

($firstword) = ($yourscalar =~ m/(\w+)/); <-- match first word, capture it and put it into $firstword


Something like this...

Thanks all i got the answer.....

:)Thanks all i got the answer.....

The mantra in Perl-land is "TMTOWTDI" = There's More Than One Way To Do It.

:rolleyes: