Newbee needs help

Hi all

 I am a new user to ORO and need some help
I would like to  execute the following perl code in java

$pages = “something” ;
if ($pages =~ /^(\d+)-(\d+)/){
    ($p1,$p2) = ($1,$2);
} elsif ($pages =~ /^(\d+)$/){
    ($p1) = $1;
  } elsif ($pages =~ /^([A-Za-z]+)(\d+)$/){
    ($prefix,$p1) = ($1,$2);
  } elsif ($pages =~ /^([A-Za-z]+)(\d+)-(\d+)$/){
    ($prefix,$p1,$p2) = ($1,$2,$3);
  } elsif ($pages =~ /^([A-Za-z]+)(\d+)-(\1)(\d+)$/){
    ($prefix,$p1,$p2) = ($1,$2,$4);
  } elsif ($pages =~ /^(\d+)([A-Za-z]+)-(\d+)(\2)$/){
    ($p1,$suffix,$p2) = ($1,$2,$3);
  } elsif ($pages =~ /^(\d+)([A-Za-z]+)$/){
    ($p1,$suffix) = ($1,$2);
  } else {
    warn "Cant parse pages '$pages'";
  }


What would be the best way to solve this ?  :-(
I was considering using Perl4Util … but donot know how to access ($1,$2)
Rupinder