Hello Monks, I'm just learning perl and regular expressions. Hopefully someone can help me out. I have a multi-line string that is semi-colon terminated. For example: 
$_ = "10001 LONG RECORD\n
BEGIN RECORD A, CODE B, TABLE C END \n
NEXT\n
STANDARD DATA 1 BEGIN CODE A, RECORD B END NEXT\n
SHORT RECORD BEGIN TABLE B END NEXT\n
STANDARD DATA 2 BEGIN CODE C, RECORD D, FILE END;";

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I need to extract the data between each /BEGIN/ and /END/ from the string. The amount of sub-data records are variable but always given by a NEXT.

I'm thinking of writing a loop to match each group of expressions. But how do I count the amount of NEXT's in the string? Also how do I get the next set of /BEGIN/ /END/ expressions?

Final Regex question: I have the following in $1 = "CODE C, RECORD D, FILE";

How do I separate the 1st item from the the second, between comas. I.E. I want to have "CODE RECORD FILE" in one Array and "C D" in another. I thought the following would work:

(@recordSource, @recordType) = split(/\s/, split(/,/, $1));

But I only get a number in @recordSource.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated! Maybe I need a different approach?

In reply to Multiple RegEx Matches in a single string by Anonymous Monk

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