This seems to be a very strange file in the first place, which will make it quite hard to parce successfully every time and every iteration. ptum definately has it right in that we need a little more explenation of the rules of the data that will be in the file.

Given:
8=FIX.4.29=040435=8
How do we know that 9=0404 and not 9=04043? For instance, if the pattern is /\(d{1,2}=)/ always keep $1 and assume that everything else must be associated with the previous pattern?

It's hard to be certain without either better rules, or a better data source ;) Try giving as much information about the file as you can think of (and are allowed to, perhaps) and I am sure someone here will be able to help out further.

---hA||ta----
print map{$_.' '}grep{/\w+/}@{[reverse(qw{Perl Code})]} or die while ( 'trying' );

In reply to Re^3: Message regex by wazzuteke
in thread Message regex by minixman

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