Hi All,

I encountered a parse problem and I'm hoping one of your experts can help me with.

I have a text string which I want to parse into 2 separate variables. The string is made up of 2 portions, <portion1><portion2>, where portion1 can be any texts but portion2 is one of the following Crit, Maj, or Okay. 

#Sample strings in an array:

my @a = ('SystemMaj', 'MemoryCrit','ServerOkay', 'MemoryOkay');

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How would you write the code to accomplish this? I tried the following but failed. 

#code sample
my @a = ('SystemMaj', 'MemoryCrit','ServerOkay', 'MemoryOkay');
foreach my $v (@a) {
    $v =~ m/(\w+[^(?:Crit|?:Maj|?:Okay])(\w+)/;
    print "1: $1  2:$2\n";
}

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#sample output
1: System  2:Maj #correct
1: Memo  2:ryCrit #should be 1: Memory 2: Crit
1: Serve  2:rOkay #should be 1: Server 2: Okay
1: Memo  2:ryOkay #should be 1: Memory 2: Okay

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Thanks for your help.

fujiman

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