in reply to Regex question

Assuming that there are no commas in your data other than those separating the params, I would split the lines on /\s*,\s*/, which would give you an array of your parameters, then loop through the parameters and match each of them. ie (warning, untested code)
while (<>) { my @params = split /\s*,\s*/; foreach my $param (@params) { $param =~ /(Identities|Positives|Negatives)\s+=\s+(.+)\s+\((.+)\%\ +)/; # $1 now contains which type you matched, $2 and $3 are the submat +ches, do what you will with them } }
or you could get fancier and do:
while (<>) { my %params = map { my ($k,$v) = split /\s*=\s*/; $v =~ /(.+)\s+\((.+)\%\)/; ($k => [$1,$2]) } split /\s,\s*/; }
and get a hash of all your params in one fell swoop.


-pete
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