in reply to Parsing Values from a Flat File?

This Regex should help you: 
   m~([\d/]+\s+[\d\:]+\s+\w+)\s+([\d,]+).+?(\w{4})\.~;

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It returns a 3-element array containing the Timestamp, FileSize, and 4-bytes-before-dot.

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