Okay

A number of things.

One: $data has not been defined. I think you want to look at $chunks[$index]

Two: The indices for @chunks goes from 1 to @chunks-1. So be careful!

Three: In your regular expression, you have captures within captures. Note that (abc(def)(ghi))(xyz) will match the following: 

$1 = abcdefghi
$2 = def
$3 = ghi
$4 = xyz

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So, most of the time, your $5 returns undef.

Four: I am uncertain if you know what it is that you are matching. See the following code and results. It will show what you are matching, and what you could be matching if you used a simpler regex. I don't know if this is what you want, but it should get you started in the right direction.

Code 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @chunks = <DATA>;

foreach my $i ( 0 .. @chunks-1 ) {
    my $data = $chunks[$i];
    no warnings;
    if ( $data =~m/(\d+)\s{2,}(\d+) \s{2,}((\d|-)?(\d|,)*\.?\d*)\s{2,}
+((\d|-)?(\d|,)*\.?\d*)\s{2,}/) { #/ ) { 
        print "<$1> <$2> <$3> <$4> <$5> <$6> <$7> <$8>\n"; 
    }
}
print "\n\n";
foreach my $i ( 0 .. @chunks-1 ) {
    my $data = $chunks[$i];
    no warnings;
    if ( $data =~m/(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(-?\d*,?\d*\.?\d*)\s+(-?\d*,?\d*\.?
+\d*)\s+/) { #/ ) { 
        print "<$1> <$2> <$3> <$4>\n"; 
    }
}

__DATA__
1022289744                 8008102935                 221.00          
+   199.00                70.50                3.20               0.00
+              -9.70              27.09             290.09
1022290146                 8008102942                  0.00           
+  199.00                63.80                0.00               0.00 
+             -3.80              26.70             285.70
1022290145                 8008102930                  0.00           
+  199.00              207.80                 3.20               1.20 
+          -120.00               30.04             321.24
1022289844                 8008102943                  0.00           
+  199.00                 5.50                9.00               0.00 
+              0.00              21.98             235.48
1022290156                 8008102954                  0.00           
+  199.00              283.40                 0.40             11.20  
+            -51.80              45.53             487.73
1022290048                 8008102949                  0.00           
+  199.00                 0.00                0.00               0.00 
+              0.00              20.50             219.50

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Results 
<1022289744> <8008102935> <221.00> <2> <1> <199.00> <1> <9>
<1022290146> <8008102942> <0.00> <0> <> <199.00> <1> <9>
<1022290145> <8008102930> <0.00> <0> <> <199.00> <1> <9>
<1022289844> <8008102943> <0.00> <0> <> <199.00> <1> <9>
<1022290156> <8008102954> <0.00> <0> <> <199.00> <1> <9>
<1022290048> <8008102949> <0.00> <0> <> <199.00> <1> <9>


<1022289744> <8008102935> <221.00> <199.00>
<1022290146> <8008102942> <0.00> <199.00>
<1022290145> <8008102930> <0.00> <199.00>
<1022289844> <8008102943> <0.00> <199.00>
<1022290156> <8008102954> <0.00> <199.00>
<1022290048> <8008102949> <0.00> <199.00>

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Good luck!

In reply to Re^5: parsing text file by Sandy
in thread parsing text file by doubledecker

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