use strict; use warnings; my $command = do{ local $/ = undef; }; $command =~ m/(!\w+\s?.+?)(?=!\w)/simg; if( $command eq "" ) { print "Add a command, man!\n"; } else { if( $command =~ /^\!Book/ ) { print "Found a Book\n\n"; } elsif ( $command =~ /^\!Number/ ) { print "Time to log a phone number\n\n"; } print "Command has the following in it : $command and was started at \n"; printf "Time %s\n", scalar(localtime); print "Command 1 is $1\n"; print "And Command 2 is $2\n\n"; print "Command 3 is $3\n\n"; print "\n"; } __DATA__