Hi monks;

I want to be able to capture in a regex output say like this: Viridiplantae Crenarchaeota Fungi Crenarchaeota Fungi Fungi Fungi Metazoa Metazoa Euryarchaeota Fungi, using a regex:

$line=~ /\bkingdom\b\|(.*?)\|/).

The problem is I want to be able to capture the output not as a single scalar but as individual values to be used in an @array and stored in hash as individual keys say.

Much app help x.

Ok sorry I should have done;

my code is: 
my $key;
while($line=<>){

if($line=~/\bkingdom\b\|(.*?)\|/g){

$key.=$1;


}
}

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and (part of) my data is: (a bit of a jumble) 
species|Caragana arborescens | genus|Caragana | subfamily|Papilionoide
+ae | family|Fabaceae | order|Fabales | no rank|eurosids I | subclass|
+Rosidae | no rank|core eudicots | no rank|eudicotyledons | no rank|Ma
+gnoliophyta | no rank|Spermatophyta | no rank|Euphyllophyta | no rank
+|Tracheophyta | phylum|Embryophyta | no rank|Charophyta/Embryophyta g
+roup | no rank|Streptophyta | kingdom|Viridiplantae | superkingdom|Eu
+karyota | no rank|cellular organisms | no rank|root || 
species|syncytium endosymbiont of Diaphorina citri | no rank|unclassif
+ied beta proteobacteria (miscellaneous) | no rank|unclassified beta p
+roteobacteria | class|beta subdivision | phylum|Proteobacteria | supe
+rkingdom|Bacteria | no rank|cellular organisms | no rank|root || 
subspecies|Trypanosoma brucei brucei | species|Trypanosoma brucei | su
+bgenus|Trypanozoon | genus|Trypanosoma | family|Trypanosomatidae | or
+der|Kinetoplastida | no rank|Euglenozoa | superkingdom|Eukaryota | no
+ rank|cellular organisms | no rank|root || 
species|unculturable Mariana archaeon no. 1 | no rank|environmental sa
+mples | no rank|unclassified Crenarchaeota | kingdom|Crenarchaeota | 
+superkingdom|Archaea | no rank|cellular organisms | no rank|root || 
species|Suillus aeruginascens | genus|Suillus | family|Boletaceae | or
+der|Boletales | subclass|Hymenomycetidae | class|Hymenomycetes | phyl
+um|Basid

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BUT I think I managed it using this now and this answers my question, I'm pretty sure: 
@array= split(/\s+/, $key);

print $array[0], $array[1], $arrray[2] etc..

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so now I can access each element/key in the array and store it in a hash now as individual keys

Edit: g0n - code tags

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