#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 1; my $str = '{\"id\":01,\"start_time\":\"1477954800000\",\"stop_time\":\"1485817200000\",\"url\":http:://www.example.com\}'; my ($extracted) = $str =~ /start_time\D*(\d+)/g; is ($extracted, '1477954800000', 'Value extracted');