lensman

But I didn't....

Talked to B on the phone for a bit, and then got on the computer to bang my head against some windows cmd, and perl code.....

I thought I had it too, but it's been a few years since I played with perl and the perl side of the scripts are not doing what I want...

Anyone want to take a stab at this???

What I'm getting is a temp file where I need to find the following line:

      name: Last, First M

and what I want to have happen is that I get a stringthat would be:

$fullname="First M Last"

Should be simple right??? Thats the last piece to go, but I was banging my head on getting the rest of the dang scripts to work together until 7am this morning, and the a tried to catch some shut-eye before comming to work....

Here's what I tried:

open (USERINFO, "\\\\$userserver\\$userdirectory\\$username\\Settings\\Personal\\user-info.txt") || die "Open: $!";
#define variable fullname in case it is not found in the file.
#$fullname="";

while (defined ($temp = )) {
	chomp($temp);
	if ($temp =~ /^      name:\b/) { #Continue searching until a line starting with "      name:" is found
		$temp =~ s/      name:\s+//;
		$firstname=substr($temp,rindex $temp,", "); #$firstname includes MI
		$tempname=substr($temp,0,rindex $temp,", ");
		$lastname=substr($tempname,0,-2);
		$fullname=$firstname." ".$lastname;
	}
}

Am I missing something for the whitespace in frount of "name:"?