use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $path = '/.snapshots123/yabsm/root/hourly/day=2021_03_04,time=21:20'; my $end_of_path; $end_of_path = $1 if $path =~ m/([^\/]+$)/; my @nums = $end_of_path =~ m/([0-9]{2,4})/g; print Dumper( \@nums );