Hi Gato, Could you resend your input, code and expected output? The HTML tags makes it difficult to tell what tags you have in the input. As I see it you wish to extract the first word, first word after a colon and the character contained in the first [] from each record, the following, iterating over a file should extract the terms you are looking for.

$_=~ m/^(\w+)[^[]+\[(.)\][^:]+(\w+)/;
print "$1\t$3\t$2\n";
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