Hi all,

I am working on a regex that just won't do what it's told...

Basically I have a file like the following...

test1:x:26:testing1     
test2:x:45:testing2
test3:x:45:testing3
test4:x:23:testing4
test5:x:45:testing5

Now I need to strip everything in there that is before the first ':' and
only match anything with the ':45'.  I also need to be able to extract
everything past the last ':' and then store her in a hash like this...

%crud = {
            'test2' => 'testing2',
            'test3' => 'testing3',   #Because these have 45 within them
:)
            'test5' => 'testing5'
}'

Here is what I have so far...

$name_of_hash = "Crud";

open FILE ....
while (<FILE>) {
        $keys_of_hash = $1 if /^\s*(.*?)\s*:/;
}
close FILE;

This is fine because it now finds the first part ie...

test1
test2
test3
test4
test5

Can some one give me some suggestions on where I would go next?

Regards,

Dan
        
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