Hi guys n gals,

I'm a total newb to perl and regex and is having a hard time with the work that i'm currently doing.

i have a input file with stuff like below where i have to extract out the test name and the value in the middle along with it's unit.

So for the example shown below, i would need to extract out abc, 450.98mV, bcd 50.70dB and are 50.00dB.

I have been racking my brain trying to find a way to differentiate between those with just two units but have no idea how to make it so i can pull just the middle value.

Anyone has any suggestions, regex or whatever concept that can do this?

605 abc xxx        410.00 mV <   450.98 mV     < 490.00 mV
606 bcd yyy        -46.50  dB <   50.70  dB                
607 are zzz                      50.00  dB <   58.48  dB

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In reply to How to regex this one out? by MelaOS

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