I am new to perl and hence this simple query.

I want to parse a string described as below to get the value '0x2f7c'.

1:05:02.599,xx:MTV = 0x2f7c:COOL_CALL, an option = 11

Please note:

a) '1:05:02.599' and '0x2f7c' are dynamic, which means to say, it keeps changing and which is not constant in the file. In other words, I can't grep these values from my code.

b) ":COOL_CALL, an option" is static, which I can use/grep from my code.

So monks can you help me as how to go about this problem? Thankz in advance

In reply to Parsing of a string by Aaryan

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