Hey all. I stink at regexes, so I thought I would grab some help. I would normally use a split to do something like this, but the data isn't always consistent, so I think a regex is my only option. If there are any other options, I'd be happy to hear them.
Here's the dealy....I'm trying to break down a string that can contain several (unknown) instances of 5 pieces of data.
Here's an example of one that contains 3 instances:
value:patternList = "{error 1 1 {^E [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9].*
+$} {^E [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9].*$}} {three 1 1 {^.*35=A.*$|^
+.*35=5.*$} {^.*35=A.*$|^.*35=5.*$}} {fixv 1 1 ^.*VFIXFxProxy.*Disconn
+ected ^.*VFIXFxProxy.*Disconnected}"

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The first instance starts with "error", the 2nd "three" and the 3rd "fixv". Notice that the fixv instance doesn't have "{}" around the 4th and 5th pieces of data like the other 2 do...this is my problem and why I can't use split. Also note that the lack of "{}" can occur in any of the instances, not just the 3rd.
So...in a nutshell...I'm trying to pull out the 3 instances into an array which I can then split (or use another regex) to get my 5 pieces of data from each.

The data itself is separated by spaces (with data containing a space encompassed with {}), so in instance 1, the 5 pieces would be: 
error
1
1
^E [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9].*$
^E [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9].*$

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I hope this makes sense...it's difficult to explain. Thanks in advance for any help.

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