Are the line-numbers part of the data? If so, your regex will never match as you anchor your regex to the beginning of the line and don't take the line number into account.

The following will work with or without line-numbers:

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>) {
    next unless m/EUR\/USD/;
    chomp;
    my ($currency, $amount, $time) = split /\s*,\s*/;
    $currency =~ s/\d*\s*//g;
    print "$currency: $amount at $time\n";
}

__DATA__
1  EUR/USD ,1.35590   ,13:09:31
2  EUR/JPY , 129.872  ,13:09:29
3  GBP/JPY , 138.009  ,13:09:32
4  AUD/JPY ,   65.939 ,13:09:30
5  EUR/USD ,1.35592   ,13:09:35
6  EUR/JPY , 129.866  ,13:09:35
7  GBP/JPY , 137.999  ,13:09:35
8  AUD/JPY ,   65.938 ,13:09:35
9  EUR/USD ,1.35592   ,13:09:35
10 EUR/JPY , 129.866  ,13:09:35
11 GBP/JPY , 137.999  ,13:09:35
12 AUD/JPY ,   65.938 ,13:09:35
13 EUR/USD ,1.35592   ,13:09:35
14 EUR/JPY , 129.866  ,13:09:35
15 GBP/JPY , 137.999  ,13:09:35
16 AUD/JPY ,   65.938 ,13:09:35
17 EUR/USD ,1.35592   ,13:09:35
18 EUR/JPY , 129.866  ,13:09:35
19 GBP/JPY , 137.999  ,13:09:35

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output:
EUR/USD: 1.35590 at 13:09:31
EUR/USD: 1.35592 at 13:09:35
EUR/USD: 1.35592 at 13:09:35
EUR/USD: 1.35592 at 13:09:35
EUR/USD: 1.35592 at 13:09:35

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CountZero

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In reply to Re: a little REGEX help by CountZero
in thread a little REGEX help by Conal

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