Hello all,

I am not exactly new to Perl and have been writing programms quite often but i am ever so often stumped by regular expreessions in Perl. Would really appreciate if somone could give me some hints with regards to the following problem.

I have a text file to parse, only for one matchcase, which occurs multpile times in the text file. The matchcase is a long sentence (string!) but i need to extract only a part of it as output.

Here is my code:

 
open FILE, "<", "XYZ.txt" or die $!;
my @actionData = ();
my $i = 0;
while (my $line = <FILE>)
{
  if ( $line =~ /action/ ) 
  {
    push(@actionData, (split (/^\d+/, $line)));
    $i++;
  }
}

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The $line (the long sentence!) is:
 
[AHB_REPORTER][INFO]: action(62,1,0,0,0,0,5,53,9,0,190)D:/XYZ/reg/Test
+s/Mcu/A_test.cCALL: (null)

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I need to extract just  (62,1,0,0,0,0,5,53,9,0,190) and set all non zero numbers as some key-value pair: 
 
a => 62
b => 1
c => 5
d => 53

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and so on... Any hints would be welcome really! And thank you all in advance.

PS: I have been using Perl monks for over a year now and it really has helped me with lots of doubts that needed clarification but this is also my first post here! I hope i have framed the question understandable enough and in the right format!!

In reply to Extract a small part of a long sentence using regular expressions by swatzz

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