[ic] perl issue

[Christian Brink]

>  Aha thanks I did get that to work. But I guess I phrased my question 
>  poorly... I want to keep what remains and discard the $prefix. In other 
>  words I want to remove the first hyphen and all the comes before it 
>  leaving everything else. I can probably cobble together something based 
>  on your post but of course I welcome any input.

Boy, did I mis-read your first post - sorry for that.

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