Re: regular expression function: grep, split, substr OR NO need?

[Laurent_R]

For sure, grep, split and substr are immensely useful and expressive, you should definitely learn to use them, but I can't say whether any of them is appropriate for your specific problem at hand.

[virtuemart2]

thanks, I will read both
http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions-by-cat.html

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=split