I am trying to match a variable in a fixed width file with regex, I would like to return the matched record into an array for further processing. here is what I am trying (it returns nothing) 
sub get_domkey{                                                       
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while(<>){                                                            
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if (/\*([^*]+)\*/) {                                                  
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$key=$1;                                                              
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print "$key\n";                                                       
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&get_domcf;                                                           
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                }                                                     
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        }                                                             
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}                                                                     
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sub get_domcf{                                                        
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open DOM_CF, '/u/ds2/r61/domcf.dat' or die "Can't open DOM control fil
+e because 
$!\n";                                                                
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while (<DOM_CF>){                                                     
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if (/\$key/){                                                         
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@dom_opts=$1;                                                         
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                }                                                     
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        }                                                             
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}

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The sub get_domkey is grabbing the key and printing, when I try to use it to grab the record in sub get_domcf it returns nothing, I have tried several different regexs but have had no luck in getting any to pass the record to @dom_opts, any help would be greatly appreciated :) -Aseidas

In reply to Matching a variable in a fixed width file by aseidas

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