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sinan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to filter out the 608,132 in the following line:

USD_ABD DOLARI                608,132   611,064   607,706   611,981   1.0      1.0


Can anybody tell me how I can do it? (Of course, I can always take it out as a substring, but that would not be very reliable, in case the position of the number shifts by one or two.) Thanks in advance, Sinan