in reply to time string parsing question

This may be what you want if you are sure the time string format won't change too much:

my ($time, $minute) = $string =~ /,(\d\d:(\d\d):\d\d)/g;

use strict; my $string="01:01:2000,14:01:12,1.584167"; my ($time, $minute) = $string =~ /,(\d\d:(\d\d):\d\d)/g; print "TIME: $time\nMINUTE: $minute\n";

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