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That has the same problem as split... It will fail for variables with spaces in them.

If you can rely on the parenthesis, it would work better as:

@line_as_list = $rtpfile[$ln] =~ /Startpoint: ([^(]+).*?clocked by ([^
+)]+)\)/;

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Update: Doh! Never mind. I misread the OPs specs.

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Re^3: Parsing text without split
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 27, 2005 at 22:42 UTC
    I took his meaning to be that the "extra words" were not part of the desired capture. You can capture multiple words with spaces by changing (\w+) to ([\w\s]+).
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