G'day Buddyhelp,

"Can some one please tell me how to get the values after the third piping (|) symbol without the plus signs"

First, anchor to the the start with a '^'.

You have three groups of 'not-pipe-characters' (i.e. [^|]*) followed by a single pipe character (i.e. \|). You can use non-capturing parentheses '(?:...)' specified '{3}' times.

The data you want is the next group of 'not-pipe-characters', so use capturing parentheses '(...)' here.

Finally, you can just split on '+' to get the values you want. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

my $data = '[-3|1|29x250+46+26|200+300+464|Get]... superfluous ...';
my $re = qr{^(?:[^|]*\|){3}([^|]*)};

if ($data =~ $re) {
    my @out = split /\+/ => $1;
    print "@out";
}

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Output:

200 300 464

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Perl Regex by kcott
in thread Perl Regex by Buddyhelp

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