use strict; use warnings; my @wanted = qw{ 55 48 22 }; while ( ) { my( $head, $tagStr ) = m{ (.*) \s+\x5b ([^\x5d]+) }x; print qq{Line : $head\n}; my %tags = map { split m{=} } split m{\x01}, $tagStr; print qq{Tags found:\n}, map { sprintf qq{ %-3s => %s\n}, $_, $tags{ $_ } } sort { $a <=> $b } keys %tags; print qq{Wanted : }, join q{|}, map { exists $tags{ $_ } ? $tags{ $_ } : q{} } @wanted; print qq{\n===========\n}; } __END__ 2009/01/15 01:23:45:678: ASDF: [8=FIX.4.49=22835=D49=ZYXW56=MYCO34=652=20090115-01:23:45116=BLAH129=HALB50=MEH1=HEM11=abcefg12345615=ZZZ21=122=538=10040=244=4.8000000048=ZVZZT.N54=255=ZVZZT59=060=20090115-01:23:45100=MEH10=111] 2009/01/15 01:27:09:154: QWER: [8=FIX.4.49=22835=D49=ZYXW56=MYCO34=652=20090115-01:23:45116=BLAH129=HALB50=MEH1=HEM11=abcefg12345615=ZZZ21=122=538=10040=244=4.8000000054=255=ZVZZT59=060=20090115-01:23:45100=MEH10=111] #### Line : 2009/01/15 01:23:45:678: ASDF: Tags found: 1 => HEM 8 => FIX.4.4 9 => 228 10 => 111 11 => abcefg123456 15 => ZZZ 21 => 1 22 => 5 34 => 6 35 => D 38 => 100 40 => 2 44 => 4.80000000 48 => ZVZZT.N 49 => ZYXW 50 => MEH 52 => 20090115-01:23:45 54 => 2 55 => ZVZZT 56 => MYCO 59 => 0 60 => 20090115-01:23:45 100 => MEH 116 => BLAH 129 => HALB Wanted : ZVZZT|ZVZZT.N|5 =========== Line : 2009/01/15 01:27:09:154: QWER: Tags found: 1 => HEM 8 => FIX.4.4 9 => 228 10 => 111 11 => abcefg123456 15 => ZZZ 21 => 1 22 => 5 34 => 6 35 => D 38 => 100 40 => 2 44 => 4.80000000 49 => ZYXW 50 => MEH 52 => 20090115-01:23:45 54 => 2 55 => ZVZZT 56 => MYCO 59 => 0 60 => 20090115-01:23:45 100 => MEH 116 => BLAH 129 => HALB Wanted : ZVZZT||5 ===========