Don't do it with one regex, instead split it first into records.
use Data::Dumper; for my $record (split m/\n\n\n/, $tempStr){ my %user_info; for (split m/\n/, $record){ if (m/^User (.*)$/){ $user_info{name} = $1; } elsif (m/^(\w+)\s*=\s*(.*)$/){ $user_info{$1} = $2; } } print Dumper \%user_info if %user_info; }

(Update: Code now actually works).

Note that your email addresses a@b.com try to interpolate the array @b if the string is in double quotes, so please use single quotes (or even better, a here-doc) instead.


In reply to Re: regexp parsing from a big string... by moritz
in thread regexp parsing from a big string... by dani_cv

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