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

All, can anyone provide some help? my current output is E00854), Seq #: 000595 in TLU: st_ and all I want is the E string and cannot get my substr working Here is my code:
foreach (split /\n/, $EDM_nonactive_tapelist ) { if (( /\((E\d+)/ ) && ( !m/\*Orig/ ) && ( m/st +_9840_acs_0/ )) { local $, = "\t"; #print OUT "$1\n" unless substr($_, 0, + 5) eq '*Orig'; #my $fooed = substr($_, 29, 34) ; #print "$fooed \n"; print "$1\n" if substr($_, 29, 34) eq +'E0+'; #print "$_ \n"; exit 0; } }