hi all

thi is my program

my output is

version
2.17.8.9

i need to match 2.17so if i use

while(<p>)

{

if (/[0-9]+\.[0-7][0-7]/) {


}

}

is not working

any help pls.

thanks

Hi, Welcome.   You really need to put some sort of action in the if block - otherwise the code as posted will just go through the whole file that I presume you've already opened on a file handle called p, find the matching lines, and do nothing with them.

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