in reply to Silly RegEx problem

You might also want to put it into one regex, depending on context:
while (<DATA>) { my ($one,$two); if ( /^\({\w+\s+\d+\})\s+(.*)/ ) { $one = $1; $two = $2; } print "ONE: $one\n"; print "TWO: $two\n"; }

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