I am reading in text from various files and need to pull out specific regex-s. I can easily perform the action to find the specific pattern I am looking for, but once I have it it is in a line of text delimited by varying characters and at a different offset from the beginning of the line each time.

Can someone tell me how I can get just this phrase from the line of text? What I need to do is find m/.*PNAME:.*/ in the string, once it is found I need to add just "PNAME:\w" to a hash. The part after the ":" will vary and I need to know how many occurances of each variation I have.

What I have so far is the right logic, but I end up with the whole line in $_ placed into the hash. I only want the PNAME:\w part.

I know I'm going to feel stupid when someone points this out, but HELP!.

TIA, Chad. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @filelist = < S2002* >;
my %PNODES;


for (@filelist)
{
    open(FILE,$_);
    while (<FILE>)
    {
        if ($_ =~ m/.*PNODE:.*/)
        {
            $PNODES{$_} = 1;
        }
    }
}

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