note ig <blockquote>I cannot sxtract the IP address for the switch for some reason</blockquote> <p>The third line, with the IP address is indented: there is some whitespace at the beginning of the line, but your regular expression is looking for 'IP' at the beginning of the line: <c>/^IP/</c>. Change that to accept some leading whitespace and you should get a match: <c>/^\s*IP/</c></p> 990301 990311