That's pretty vague. Here's a vague response: perlre.

What do you mean by string? Do you mean everything that follows "TARGET=" and isn't a space? The general regex looks like this:

my ( $target ) = ( $string =~ /TARGET=\s*(\S+)/ );
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But that's still pretty vague and might not fit what you want. Show us a few input records and exactly what data you want to extract from the records and we can better help you.

Cheers,
Ovid

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