I have an executable that outputs to STDERR and STDOUT the following: 
00 0A EF 85 BA 8F AA BC

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(and it keeps going for a while until an end of line character)

I built a perl script I want to pipe this output into. So to run it I would do the

Extractor.exe |& output.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Name: output.pl
#
while (<>)
  next if !~ m/([0-9a-f])([0-9a-f]) ([0-9a-f])([0-9a-f])/;
  $a = sprintf("%s%s%s%s",$1,$2,$3,$4);
}

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This is so ugly! And to do this for my whole "line" of output, I have to do like fifty captures. I was hoping someone had a more efficient way of doing this. Help please. Thanks, S

In reply to Help with parsing a string by sdolancu

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