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Well, understanding the intent was not the problem, but reading the OP, I was truly wondering whether the poster really wanted to do it in Perl. Besides, assuming the OP wanted to do it in Perl, I thought it was useful to remind the OP that the split does not store its results into $1, $2, etc.

In addition, I have taken the time to provide actual code to solve the solution, so that I would think the OP does not have to complain about my post.

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Re^4: File Parsing
by kel (Sexton) on Jun 24, 2014 at 09:42 UTC
    Dear Laurent, many thanks to yourself and others for your most noble efforts.

    But I do believe the most effective manner is : Debian::Dpkg::Version

    I did not know the right question to ask the Oracle of CPAN.

    I am an humble bookseller, not an enlightened programmer.

    So I frequently have found need to Perl to manage my database scripts, and found it a wunderful tool, as well as an iinstructive one.

    The project would surely be a Perl effort. Actually i know it better than AWK!

    What is there not to love about it, It has everything, inclusing GOTO. The passage of time has diminished my grief over line numbers.
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