Sorry i did miss the +9 but still getting an error 


#  ATTEMPT 1 (works but will need to split file into words and test ea
+ch word)

my $str = "br>94.198.240.132:60988 asdfasdf 174.142.24.201:3128 asdfas
+dfasdf";
($p1, $p2, $p3 , $p4 , $p5) = ($str =~ /([0-9]{1,3}).([0-9]{1,3}).([0-
+9]{1,3}).([0-9]{1,3}):([0-9]{1,5})/g);
print "$p1 $p2 $p3 $p4 $p5 \n";

# ATTEMPT 2 (still getting an error message)

my $str = "br>94.198.240.132:60988 asdfasdf 174.142.24.201:3128 asdfas
+dfasdf";
if (my @matches = $str =~ m{ ([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9
+]{1,3}:[0-9]{1,5}) }xmsg) {
   print qq{matched @matches};

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Missing right curly or square bracket at C:\CC\BUY\ptest2.pl line 16, at end of line syntax error at C:\CC\BUY\ptest2.pl line 16, at EOF Execution of C:\CC\BUY\ptest2.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Thank you again for all your help AnomalousMonk and Moritz

In reply to Re^3: Extracting IP address from large text file. by Monkomatic
in thread Extracting IP address from large text file. by Monkomatic

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