May you try this matching?
while(<DATA>) {
next unless /^(\S+\s+)(\S+\s+)(\S+\s+).*\"(.*?)\"/;
print "$1 $2 $3 $4\n";
}
HTH.
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Message Received: May 25 2012, 09:52 PM
From: "Christopher Gray" <christopher.g...@talktalk.net>
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc:
Subject: Help required to extract multiple text fields from a text string
Good day,
I have a text file containing records. While I can extract single
sub-strings, I cannot extract multiple sub-strings.
The records are of multiple types - only about a third of which have the
data I need.
An example of a "good" record is
Abc1234 STATUS open DESCRIPTION "A basket of melons" :: { fruittype 1}
I'm trying to extract the first (Abc1234), second (open), third (A basket of
melons) and fourth (1) strings.
I can extract each of them separately - but not together.
So - for example:
while (<FILE>) {
chomp;
next if !/\{\s+fruittype\s+(\d+)\s+}/;
my $Temp =$1;
}
Extracts the fruittype. However, when I try and have multiple extracts:
...
next if !/\STATUS\s+(\w+)\s+\{\s+fruittype\s+(\d+)\s+}/;
...
It fails.
What have I done wrong?
Chris
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