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]