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bart
I don't see why you need a regular expression for this. Unless your problem is more complex than what you described here...
Here is basically what I'd do:
<c>
my %row;
while(<>) {
chomp;
my($key, $value) = split ' ', $_, 2
or next;
$row{$key} = $value;
}
</c>
To test, store your data in a text file and use the file name as the argument for the test script.
<p>Now all data are in a hash. You can see what's in there:
<c>
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \%row;
</c>
To put it in an SQL database, I prefer to use [mod://DBIx::Simple] with support of [mod://SQL::Abstract], for which the code could simply be:
<c>
# $db is the DBIx::Simple database connection handle object
$db->insert($table, \%row);
</c>
<p><u>p.s.</u> The article that got me on my way in regular expressions, is Tom Christiansen's newsgroup post "Irregular Expressions" which has been republished on the net and even on CPAN under the name "FMTEYEWTK (= Far More Than Everything You Ever Wanted To Know) about regexes". You can find a copy [http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/regexps.html|here].
<p>It's ancient (duh) and contains some obsolete remarks, but it's still excellent.
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