This might be helpful: use this concept: 
my @matches = ($line =~ /$regexp/);

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where whatever is matched within parentheses in the regexp will be output to the elements of @matches.

So, if the '987' that you are matching always occurs in the same place, then within your loop you could do something like: 
my $regexp = "\d+: (\d+):(\d+):(\d+),\d+,\d+,(\d+)\.+$";
my ($hr,$min,$sec,$match) = ($field =~ /$regexp/);
if ($match == '987') {
    ... #do whatever you have to do with $hr,$min,$sec

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I'm sure there are better ways to do the regexp, but I do it like that because that's the way I understand it.

My point is that I prefer to split it up all at once by fishing out your values with one regexp, as opposed to splitting and splitting.

Hope this helps....

In reply to Re: split into hash by fpi
in thread split into hash by Anonymous Monk

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