in reply to Re^4: Regular expression help
in thread Regular expression help

while(<DATA>){ next if /^\s*stephen\s/; if (~m/^(\w+?)\s+(\w+?)\s+\((\w+?)\)\s+\((\w+?)\),\s+.+$/){ print "user: $1 version: $3 server: $4"; } }

(More complicated and less elegant that the use of split in any case IMHO...)