As it stands, I don't think your code even compiles, since you've got an unbalanced '(' in your regular expression. I'd start by fixing that.

Second, '|' is a special character in regular expressions, meaning "this OR that". Since you want a literal '|', you need to precede it with a '\'.

Next, you're using '|' again between TOTAL and your digits, while your example has spaces there. Which is it?

'\d' is a character class by itself - it doesn't go in square brackets. But since you also need to match '.', use '0-9.'. Do you also need to match negative numbers? If so, that would be '-0-9.'.

Finally, you're only capturing the first number, and you said you need both.

Putting all of that together, please try this regular expression: 

/\|TOTAL\s+([0-9.]+)%\s+([0-9.]+)/

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I think that might work better for you....

Test case: 

perl -e'$_="~|TOTAL 24.1% 0.4%"; /\|TOTAL\s+([0-9.]+)%\s+([0-9.]+)/ &&
+ print "Matched, $1 $2\n"'
Matched, 24.1 0.4

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Mike

In reply to Re: Extracting string from a file by RMGir
in thread Extracting string from a file by Bindo

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