in reply to Match into scalar

It looks like you're trying to separate tapes by pool. You could try something like this:
my @daily_pool = `mminfo -av -r 'volume, savetime' -q 'pool=DailySecOf +fSite' -t '3 weeks ago'`; my @monthly_pool = `mminfo -av -r 'volume, savetime' -q 'pool=MonthlyO +ffSite' -t '3 weeks ago'`;
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