It helps if you show what you've already tried, and how it behaves. Also tell us what your criteria are, so we can judge which solutions work for you.

Given that I'm lazy today, I'll give a short answer anyway (untested): 

my @nums = $dotted_num_string =~ /^(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))*$/;

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...which captures the numeric parts in @nums.

If you have some known restriction on how many or how few numeric fields there are, you can use a quantifier: 

my @nums = $dotted_num_string =~ /^(\d+)(\.\d+){3,5}$/;

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gives 4 to 6 numeric fields.

-QM
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In reply to Re: Regex for matching dotted numbers by QM
in thread Regex for matching dotted numbers by techman2006

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