Getting closer... Thank you! Sorry if I'm not clear enough, there's a lot of strings I'm matching against, but what I want remains the same. I want the group and role names in the hash. For instance, I used a string like this:

$string = "Role: Role Name▼▼Profile: Unnecessary_Extra_Stuff";

but it returned:

This is the Role Name:Role Name▼▼Profile Name: Unnecessary_Extra_Stuff

FYI, here's my code snippet: 
while ( ${$ref}{$k}{'DIRTYDATA'} =~ /(Group|Role)\:\s+([\x00-\x7f]*)/g
+ ){
 ${$ref}{$k}{$1} = $2;
}
print "\n\nThis is the Group Name: " . ${$ref}{$k}{Group};
print "\nThis is the Role Name: " . ${$ref}{$k}{Role};

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I only want it to return Group or Role names, not Profile names and no extended ascii characters.

I did mention an array before, but it's storing fine in my HoH which I'm getting out of a fetchall hashref from DBI, so storage really isn't the problem, the problem is only matching role group names in these dirty little strings.

Thanks.
- 3dbc

In reply to Re^8: regex match unicode characters in ascii string by 3dbc
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