I can parse for the name ...

You could parse for the name if the code compiled, but it doesn't. After some fixes, you can get the following, but there seems to be another problem. 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks\cbtshare>perl -wMstrict -le
"my @file = `cat text.txt`;
 ;;
 foreach my $line (@file) {
   while ($line =~ /name \s+(.*?) \s+(.*?)/mgx) {
     my $name = $1;
     print qq{name '$name'  other '$2'};
     }
   }
"
name 'Brian'  other ''
name 'Andrew'  other ''
name 'ryan'  other ''

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Why is  $2 always empty?

Update: Also, is there any point to the  /g modifier in the  /name \s+(.*?) \s+(.*?)/mgx match?

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In reply to Re: perl parsing by AnomalousMonk
in thread perl parsing by cbtshare

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