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Can someone help me with this perl pattern match, I am a newbie and write very little perl. I have a $out placeholder which could hold the following values in its 

HostName:                             LAP3220889
TaskName:                             infiniteloop
Next Run Time:                        Never
Status:
Last Run Time:                        21:45:18, 22/06/2011
Last Result:                           0
 
or
 
HostName:                             LAP3220889
TaskName:                             infiniteloop
Next Run Time:                        11:06:00, 23/06/2011
Status:                               Running
Last Run Time:                        10:10:04, 23/06/2011
Last Result:                          0
<code/> 

<p>
I need to match taskname which is picked up from an existing variable 
+value, then I need to match Status: and its value (either "Running" o
+r ""), then I need to match Last Result with its value.  So out the d
+ata I need to match the following (for example)
</p> 
 
<code>
 
 TaskName:                             infiniteloop
 Status:                               Running
 Last Result:                          0

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This is my current code 

if($out =~ m/TaskName:\s+$task.*?Status:\s+(.*?)\sLast Run Time:\s+(.*
+?)\sLast Result:\s+(\d)/s)
 {
  chomp($status = $1);
  $result = $3;

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which matches but I have to add \sLast Run Time:\s+(.*?) so it picks up Status value correctly My pattern should be 

 
if($out =~ m/TaskName:\s+$task.*?Status:\s+(.*?)\sLast Result:\s+(\d)/
+s)
 {
  chomp($status = $1);
  $result = $2;

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Im struggling with the match on Status, in a data dump this picks up 

 
$VAR1 = 'infiniteloop';
$VAR2 = 'Running
Last Run Time:                        21:28:57, 23/06/2011';
$VAR3 = '0';

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As you can see the status pattern match slurps all the data until it matches the start of "Last Result:" string from the data in $out This is probably very simple, I need a pattern to terminate at the end of status (VAR2) line and jump forward to match Last Result. Can anyone help?

In reply to regex pattern match by MarcAllan

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