HI All, I would like your input on how to solve my problem with one to many relation ship. This is how the data come to the code:

 tar : ERGC [1] | ALX5 [2] | PT2 [3] | PRTD [4]  act:  Ago [1] : Inhib
+it [2,3,4]
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I need to insert in my database ERGC and AGO and the rest ALX5, PT2,PRTD all should have inhibit. like :

insert into Table1 values(sq_tab1.nextval,'ERGC','AGO');
insert into table1 values(sq_tab1.nextval,'ALX5','inhibit');
insert into table1 values(sq_tab1.nextval,'PT2','inhibit');
insert into table1 values(sq_tab1.nextval,'PRTD','inhibit');
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I have a code that parses the input to a format of : actual target ERGC and its reference 1 and similarly actual action AGO and its reference 1,2 or 1,2,3,4.

      my @targets = split (/\|/,$mech_results->{'Targets'}); 
    my @actions = split (/\|/,$mech_results->{'Mechanism of Action_typ
+e'} );
    my $a = sprintf "targets: %s | actions: %s |", join( ":", @targets
+ ), join ( ":", @actions );
    warn $a;
    my $iteration = each_array(@targets,@actions);
    #my ($targets,$actions) = targetsSynced(\@targets,\@actions);
    #warn scalar @targets. '|' . @actions;
    if(scalar @targets  eq scalar @actions){
        
    }else{
        while(my($targets,$actions) = $iteration->()){
          next if ($targets|$actions) eq '';
          # targets with more than one reference.
          if($targets =~ /(\(?\w+\))?(?:[ \/](.*))/){
            my ($target, $tar_ref) = $targets =~ /\(?(\w+)\)?(?:[ \/](
+(.*)))/;
            my ($tarref_no) = $tar_ref =~ /\[(\d)\]/;
            my ($action,$act_ref) = $actions =~ /(.*)?\s\[(.*)\]/;
            my @act = split(/,/,$act_ref); 
            foreach my $af(@act){
            
                #warn "$af,$tarref_no $target, $action";
                
            }
                
          }
        }
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But with this I get this:

1,1 ERGC, Ago
2,2 ALX5,  Inhibit
3,2 ALX5,  Inhibit
4,2 ALX5, Inhibit
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But I would like to have

1,1 ERGC, Ago
2,2 ALX5,  Inhibit
3,3 PT2,  Inhibit
4,4 PRTD, Inhibit
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Any suggestion please. Thanks

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