Hey guys,

I am trying to parse a text file contaning customer information of the following format:

AB1\tA{Daniel Wright}\sA{Jack Smith}\sB{Jane Goodwin}
QW1\tA{Samantha Patton}\sC{Timothy Eeckles}
AR2\tA{Jane Goodwin}

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Each line may contain different number of customers and this has made it difficult for me to write a regex to capture all customers<\p>

I would like to put all the names into an array and then print them out along with the number of times a customer's name is mentioned in the file:

Jane Goodwin 2
Daniel Wright 1
Jack Smith 1
Samantha Patton 1
Timothy Eeckles 1

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I used the following regex to extrac the names and put them into an array but it captures only the first customer on every line.

if ($line =~ m/{(.*?)}/g) {
    $customer_name = $1;
    push (@Customer_List, $customer_name);

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How can I modify this regex to match more than one instance, i.e, multiple customer names?

Thank you

In reply to Matching multiple {hits} by sophix

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