I'm a newbie perl user, and this has me stumped..  I'm trying to
grab a chunk from a string, using regexp.  In this case, I want
to get the load average on the server and stick it in a variable.

$_ = `uptime` ;
#if (/average: (.\...),/) {
if (/average: (*),/) {
        $loadnow = $1 ;

The commented line compiles (though it's wrong for my purpose),
the active line does not (but I can't grok the error).  Neither
of them work :)

Any tips?

Much thanks..

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Welcome to perl, Jesse!

You're getting confused by the (slight) differences between shell
regular expression syntax and perl regular expression syntax.  What
you want is something more like:
    if (/average: (\S+),/) {    # get multiple non white space
or:
    if (/average: ([\d.]+),/) { # get multiple digit or period

Have fun!
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Hal Wine

Quite right, I wasn't clear enough, but that was what I needed anyway :)

I was confusing regexp * with shell *..

Thanks!
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