in reply to regex capture and quantifiers

Something like this:

use warnings; use strict; my $str = '12/22/2005 20 Notice of Agenda of Matters Scheduled for Hea +ring (related document(s)2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, + 16, [17], 18, 19) Filed by Fubar, Inc.. Hearing scheduled for 4/11/2013 at 11:30 AM'; if($str=~m{related.+\)(.+?)\[(.+?)\](.+?)\)}){ print join "\n" => map{ split/,\s*/,$_}($1,$2,$3); }
Update: I think it is also a good practice to test what you match.

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If you show me, I'll remember.
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