Are you running the code I posted ?. If not can you please post the string that is not working so I can replicate the error.

Yes, I'm using your code. like i said it works, but $2 only has the role name, not the group name. ideally I'd like $2 to have the group name and $3 to have the role name.

I updated the original post. The string gets messed up when you post it with < code > tags.

my $string ="Group: Group Name▼▼Role: Role Name"

Thanks!
- 3dbc

I thought you said in an earlier reply you wanted an array. If you want a hash ref then try this, the while loop matches both values

#!perl
use strict;
use HTML::Entities;
use Data::Dump 'pp';

my $string = "Group: Group Name▼▼Role: Role Name";
$string = decode_entities($string);
my $href={};
while ( $string =~ /(Group|Role)\:\s+([\x00-\x7f]*)/g ){
  $href->{$1} = $2;
};
pp $href;
print "Role = $href->{'Role'}\n";
print "Group= $href->{'Group'}\n";
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