Using the getMatch() method in Perl5Util

Hi,

My name is Andrew Yates & I am new to this mailing list. I have a question
concerning using getMatch(). I am trying to run a regular expression to
extract XGHTYUY from the following text in a file:

>XGHTYUY  Random 589 "Random item"

Using the regular expression ($line =~ /<^>)(.+?\b)/) I can extract the
required section by using $2. However I don't seem to be able to carry this
function out in the ORO implementation of regular expressions. Is there an
interface available for doing this or is this just a feature of perl?

I am aware that I could solve the problem by using a substring method on the
outputted String class but I would like to be able to find out how to do
this properly for future reference.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew Yates

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