Sorry for the late reply. I like your idea of a regex.
use warnings; use strict; while (<DATA>) { print "$1 $2 $3\n" if /^\s*(\d+)\s+\S+\s+(\d+)\s+\S+\s+(\w+|\w+\s\ +w+)\s*$/; } __DATA__ ..more text... ..more text... ..more text... Information Summary for Head #1, Site1: No. P Device Percent Name ----------- --- ------------ ------- ----------------- 1 F 14 0.06 OPEN 2 F 216 0.97 CONTACT 4 F 326 1.47 LEFT 5 F 232 1.05 MID 6 F 54 0.24 RIGHT 7 F 6 0.03 AT 8 F 6 0.03 AT_GHT 11 F 184 0.83 5DBLT 12 F 151 0.68 2P5D 21 P 21009 94.64 Bin P ..more text... ..more text... ..more text...
Bill

In reply to Re^3: How to get correct regex by BillKSmith
in thread How to get correct regex by AtlasFlame

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.