I have a line constructed like this:
pro * con * date * at * pri * msg *
Where '*' can be any number of words or symbols. Case does not matter. Further the data pair can be in any order making
con * DAte * aT * mSg * pri * pro *
Just as legal as the former example. I'd like to get this data in hash such that pro, con, date, at, pri and msg are the keys with the *'s as the data. For example:

pro my project con my customer date 2009-10-5 at 17:00 pri 2 msg Rack 
+new server
pro = my project
con = my customer
date = 2009-10-5
at = 17:00
pri = 2
msg = Rack new server

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I've tried several different regexes. The closest is 
if ( m/\s?pro\s(.*?)\s(con|due|at|pri|msg)\s/i ){
   print "pro=".$1."\n";
}

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However, if 'pro *' is at the end of the line it does not match. Upon trying to account for being at the end of the line I end up with capturing either the entire remainder of the line or just a single white space.

Any ideas?

In reply to parsing data pairs from single line by Anonymous Monk

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