hullo i have some data that looks like this.

http://rafb.net/p/38TDqL58.html

(the data isnt always as clean as this)

i am trying to write a regex to match a line when an exact pattern appears on a line.

to summarise , the patterns i am trying to match is:

(possible white space)EUR/USD(possible white space),(possible white space)X.XXXXX(possible whitespace),(possible whitespace)XX:XX:XX:XX(possible white space/random characters)(end of line)

where X is a number.

I have played around with a few things but just cant work it out. 

if ( m{^\s* EUR[/]USD \s*,s\* (\d\.\d{5}) \s*,\s* (\d\d:\d\d:\d\d) \s*
+ (.*) $ }x )
    { // do stuff

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doesnt seem to work.

can anyone please offer some help? thanks!

conal.

In reply to a little REGEX help by Conal

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