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Looking at your code, it makes sense to use the first subroutine from the List::Util core module, instead of grep. With that, you may not use the set of parentheses.

Hi Elixr ,

Thanks for the suggestion. I am a beginner in perl so i am trying with what i have learnt. Will have check on that module. Also i dont like one part of my code

my ($user,$blah,$value)=split(/:/,$req_user_info);

if you see this. all i want is $value that is present in 3rd column. Well since split will start spliting from the start ( thats my understanding) i have to use 2 extra variables which i like to avoid. Any suggestions in doing that ?

Code:

$value=(split(/:/,$req_user_info))[3];

Thanks binlib.. it worked. btw.. does that mean we can use split function as a array ?

That technique is called list slicing. Also, read about array slices.