in reply to Re^2: Use of uninitialized value $data
in thread Use of uninitialized value $data

Perhaps use a hash?
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $line ="line: label1=N,label2=N,label3=N,label4=NNNNNNNNNNN,label5= +N,label6=WWWN"; my %values = $line =~ /(\w+)=(\w+)/g; foreach my $label (sort keys %values) { print "$label $values{$label}\n"; } __END__ label1 N label2 N label3 N label4 NNNNNNNNNNN label5 N label6 WWWN