The following code reads the content of a (simulated) file, extracts the two values and tests them. A regex is defined for each field. They are combined into a single regex which describes the rest of the line and specifies that both values should be extracted. If the match is successful, both values are tested.
use strict; use warnings; use Test::Simple tests => 3; my $fname = \do { my $line = "BOGUS PPI3_SYNY3 276 aa contentar BCT 13-NOV-2019\n"; }; open my $FH, '<', $fname or die "Cannot open $fname for input"; my $content = <$FH>; close $FH; my $get_bogus = qr/ [A-Z0-9_]+ /x; my $get_acid = qr/ [0-9]+\s[a-z]+ /x; my ( $bogus, $acids ) = $content =~ / BOGUS \s+ ($get_bogus) \s+ ($get_acid) /x; if (ok( ( defined($bogus) and defined($acids) ), 'Match') ) { ok( $bogus eq "PPI3_SYNY3" , "extracted '$bogus'"); ok( $acids eq '276 aa', "extracted '$acids'"); }

OUTPUT:

1..3 ok 1 - Match ok 2 - extracted 'PPI3_SYNY3' ok 3 - extracted '276 aa'
Bill

In reply to Re: getting a sequence of numbers and leters by BillKSmith
in thread getting a sequence of numbers and leters by shabird

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