FYI (just to bring this to a close, and for anyone else who may run into the problem)..

I've been able to resolve the this with the following code, which seems to give me the output I'm looking for: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $data = "U|(Memory is incorrectly balanced between the NUMA ";
$data .= "nodes of this system, which will lead to poor performance.  
+";
$data .= "See),_NUMA_CRIT_,;(/proc/vmware/NUMA/hardware),_NUMA_CRIT_";
$data .= ",__REFERAL__file:__SELF__;( for details on your current ";
$data .= "memory configuration),_NUMA_CRIT_,;";


(my $m_type = $data) =~ s/^((?:U|M))\|.*$/$1/;
(my $p_list = $data) =~ s/^(?:U|M)\|(.*)$/$1/;
my @sub_p_tmp = split(/;/,$p_list);

print "sub_p_tmp:\n";
print Dumper(@sub_p_tmp);

my @args;
for ( my $i = 0; $i <= $#sub_p_tmp; $i++ )
{
    $sub_p_tmp[$i] =~ s/,$//;
    if ( $sub_p_tmp[$i] =~ m/^\((.*)\),(.*),(.*)$/ )
    { push @args, ($1, $2, $3); }
    elsif ( $sub_p_tmp[$i] =~ m/^\((.*)\),(.*)$/ )
    { push @args, ($1, $2); }
}


#print "$m_type\n\n$p_list\n\n".Dumper(@sub_p_tmp)."\n";

print "\nArgs:\n";
print Dumper(@args)."\n";

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In reply to Re: Matching a pattern which resides within round brackets by jbl_bomin
in thread Matching a pattern which resides within round brackets by jbl_bomin

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