Hi Monks!

I am trying to match all occurances of a particular pattern in a file and put all the matched patterns into an array. I have the code below, but I'm not sure why it's not working.

The file has about 2-3 lines and the pattern I am looking for is like this : HOST=<something>-<domain.com> PORT=<num>, HOST=<something1>-<domain.com> PORT=<num1> ....etc

It looks something like this:
HOST=machine1-basement.xyz.com PORT=1234 HOST=machine2-attic.xyz.com PORT=9999 HOST=machine3-garage.xyz.com PORT=5555

I want to put all hosts in one array and the ports in another array. So, I am opening this file, reading one line at a time and pushing all matches into an array. However, this is not working!

open (SOURCETNS, "/home/$User/Work/PROJ/$sourceTnsFileName");
        while ($record = <SOURCETNS>)
        {
            chomp ($record);
            if ($record =~ /[\w]*\-[\w]*/)
            {
                push (@sourceDBHostsFromTnsEntry, $&);
                
            }
            if ($record =~ /[\d]*/)
            {
                push (@sourceDBPortsFromTnsEntry, $&);
                
            }
        }
        close(SOURCETNS);

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What am I doing wrong? Is this something like greedy matching? The problem here is that these patterns all occur in the same line...so I need to know how I should match multiple patterns in the same line and push them into the array?

Thanks!

In reply to Am I doing Greedy Matching? by vishi

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