Not all the text I am parsing is fixed width, just this bit.

The rest is somewhat like this (deboned to protect client) 

document : checkpoint address report(s?) doctrailer

report : report1 | report2 | report3 | ...

report1 : lt[100] report1_cost_centre(s?) lt[200]

report1_cost_centre : lt[300] report1_txn(s?) lt[400]

report1_txn : lt[500] lt[600] page_break(?) lt[700]

lt : "<LT$arg[0]>" lt_data

lt_data : /[^\\]*/ lt_end {$return = $item{__PATTERN1__}
...

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but for 15 different reports, hundreds of lt records, lots of options, repeats and alternations.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;use strict;use brain;

In reply to Re: Re: Regex to match 20 chars of some digits followed by some spaces by leriksen
in thread Regex to match 20 chars of some digits followed by some spaces by leriksen

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