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Hi TonyNY,

NetWallah gave you already an excellent answer, additionally here are some links that you may want to check out:

Official docs:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Capture-groups

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html#Named-backreferences

A bit 'easier' explanations to start with and a cheat-sheet:

https://perlmaven.com/how-to-extract-strings-from-a-file

https://perlmaven.com/regex-cheat-sheet

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by TonyNY (Beadle) on Jun 09, 2018 at 17:39 UTC
    Hi Veltro, Thanks so much for the links. I will definitely check them out while I continue to learn from my O'Reilly Learning Perl book. Regards, Tony
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