Thank you fellow monks. This week I decided to learn perl. I am some data in a text as per example below. 

{"temp":70.00,"tmode":2,"fmode":0,"override":0,"hold":0,"t_cool":70.00
+,"tstate":0,"fstate":0,"time":"day":3,"hour":23,"minute":29},"t_type_
+post":0}

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All of the data is in one line and repeats at time intervals throughout the day. I have been trying to understand a simple way for me to learn perl and use the above an a beginners way to learn to extraction of data. My simple program I have creatd below.

#! /usr/bin/perl

open (FILE, '/home/julian/tstatcollect');
while (<FILE>) {
chomp;
($temp, $tmode, $fmode, $override,) = split (",");
#my %newval = split (/[:]/, $temp); 
print "Temperature:  $temp\n";
print "Tmode:    $tmode\n";
print "Fmode:    $fmode\n";
print "Override:    $override\n";
print "________\n";
}
close (FILE);
exit;

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_______________________________________________ output shows 
Temperature:  {"temp":70.00
Tmode:    "tmode":2
Fmode:    "fmode":0
Override:    "override":0

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I understand that what it is doing is parsing out the data between each ,. What I was hoping to do is figure out how I can use split to parse the data between each " " and each : and ,. Is split the right way to go about this. Hopefully there is a simple way? Again, remember I just started last week so as simple as possible would be best. Thanks, Julian.

In reply to Proper use of split by th3j4ckl3

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