use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $path = '/.snapshots123/yabsm/root/hourly/day=2021_03_04,time=21:20'; my @nums = $path =~ m{/day=(\d\d\d\d)_(\d\d)_(\d\d),time=(\d\d):(\d\d)$}; print Dumper( \@nums );