Splitting a line

Can someone show me where i'm going wrong?

[bigshow]

17/06/05 15:15:33 - 00 - (abcdefghijklm) Have recieved END message.

my ($dt,$mon,$yr,$hr,$min,$sec,$restofit) = split(\d+?/\d+?/\d+?\s+\d+?\:\d+?[\w?¦\s?],$line);

where
\d+?/\d+?/\d+? is date,month & year
\s+ is space
\d+?\:\d+? is hh:mi
[\w?¦\s?] is word or spaces, i.e. the rest of the string.

Can somebody show me what the split command should be?

[Moby_Dim]

split(/\d+?\/\d+?\/\d+?\s+\d+?:\d+?[\w?¦\s?]/,$line)

[Moby_Dim]

Actually, there was just syntax, and now regexp issue :

/\d+?\/\d+?\/\d+?\s+\d+?:\d+?[\w?¦\s?]/.

May be you need not pipe char at all, and the tail of the regexp should be : \d+[\w\s]+ OR \d+[^\d]+ (if no digits in the tail) OR \d+\s+.+

[Moby_Dim]

oh - we all need to think first ;) Here no split needed

($dt,$mon,$yr,$hr,$min,$sec,$restofit)=$line=~m/^(\d+?)\/(\d+?)\/(\d+?)\s+(\d+?):(\d+?):(\d+?)(.+)$/;

:( means : and (

[ckarg]

The choice between split and m// comes down to whether you focus on what you don't want (use split) or what you want (use m//).

If you're only interested in the numbers, you could use:

($dt,$mon,$yr,$hr,$min,$sec) = split /\D+/, $line;

This splits the line on 'one or more non-digits', giving a list of all numbers.

The other way would be:

($dt,$mon,$yr,$hr,$min,$sec) = $line =~ m/(\d+)/g

The g modifier applies the regex 'one or more digits' to $line globally, and returns an array of all matches.

[Moby_Dim]

This does not guarantees and could read the wrong formatted line or other line with digits. I'd recommend even use not \d+ , but \d{n}