Greetings Monks,
This must be an extremely easy question to answer, but much searching has not yielded the answer I seek. I am parsing messages from TSM, which have a format like this:
ANE4954I Total number of objects backed up: 3
I need the "ANE4951I" part of the string, which can be found by simply applying the following regular expression:
s/\s.*//
However, I don't wish to change the original text, so I reasoned that as
$a=+1 is equivalent to
$a=$a+1, so
$a=~s/\s.*// should be equivalent to
$a = $a ~ s/\s.*//, enabling me to express my needs thus:
$message_id=$message ~ s/\s.*//;
Sadly, this gives me a syntax error. What is the correct syntax for this?
For now, I have coded it like this:
$message_id=$message;
$message_id=~s/\s.*//;
But I suspect there is a better way.
Thanks,
Menno