(Dermot) Re: regexp's

[Dermot]

Untested but should be enough to give you the idea:

foreach (@array)
{
    /^(\d+).*(\w+)$/;

    %hash{$2} = $1;
}

- For each element in @array

- Start of line
- Capture digits to $1
- Don't capture stuff between $1 and $2
- Capture alphanumerics to $2
- End of line

- Use values captured in $1 and $2 to populate hash

Update: Long live Dot Star. The problem is simple, I believe the solution should be too.

Update II: Ovid Just a nitpick, don't hate me for this but he wanted the last field as key and first field as value not the other way around. jcwren that is a beautiful solution.