Thanks again for the help! Here is some more detail. The input looks like this:
foo some string bar unneeded data foo another string bar data data foo
+     bar data data foo s   bar data foo string bar data data data foo
+    bar   data foo 123 string bar

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What I wanted from this was @matches where:
$matches[0] = some string
$matches[1] = another string
$matches[2] =
$matches[3] = s
$matches[4] = string
$matches[5] =
$matches[6] = 123 string

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I'm busy going through all the suggestions.

Thanks,
Smaug.

In reply to Re: Null scalars in array by Smaug
in thread Null scalars in array by Smaug

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