Hi Monks, I have a script that pulls from a report regex matches. Then i wish to refernce these matches outside of the loop, but i do not know if it is possible to assign the matches to a variable.

As you can see in my example report. The book ref number and title are matched. so on which ever report the script is executed there will only ever be one result for each pattern, book ref no. and title , as each report has the same format. I was hoping to assign each match to $book and $title, for later reference. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $book= "^\\s\*book ref \#";
my $book_res = $book =~ "/^\\s\*owner \#/";

my $title = "^\\s\*title ";
my $title_res = $title =~ "/^\\s\*title /";
foreach (<DATA>) {

  next unless /$book|$title/ip;
   
print ;
}

# here i would like to access the regex matches as scalers
 
__DATA__

Book ref #4346
Lent: Sun Jul 12 03:26:43 BST 2015
status Lent
Description: classic
title blah blah blah
last used: 2
color red
Pages 238
Publisher Bca
Type Hardback
Location: N/a
Author R jones

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resulted matches

Book ref #4346
title blah blah blah

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In reply to Perl store as variables regex matches for use outside of loop. by john.tm

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