in reply to Re^2: Etxraction of numbers in an array
in thread Extraction of numbers in an string

I'd do it this way: 

#! perl -sw
use strict;

my $string = "<1,2>:<5,7>:<3,0>";
my @x = $string =~ m[<(\d+),(\d+)>]g;
print "Extraction = @x\n";
print "1st element = $x[0]";

__END__
c:\test>junk
Extraction = 1 2 5 7 3 0
1st element = 1

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