Hi!

It would have been helpful if you have shown us the code you have already written. Otherwise it just could be general like "do it stepwise":

• extract the data betwheen the [] using a regex, e.g. $s =~ /\[(.*?)\]/;
• split the result using the |
• do some comparision for the "highest value" - here I coulnd't find out what you want... where is 204 in your example?

Of course there are many other ways to do it, and that's why it is so important for you to show us your tries - so we could give you specific help to the way you attack the problem ...

HTH, Rata

Update: replaced /[(.*?)]/ by /\[(.*?)\]/ to escape the metacharacters ... missed that point :-( Thanks AnomalousMonk for the correction!

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