note davis <p>Damn. I completely missed that.</p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $vg_details = ' --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/dsk/c14t3d1 PV Name /dev/dsk/c15t3d1 Alternate Link PV Status available Total PE 15997 Free PE 0 Autoswitch On Proactive Polling On '; while($vg_details =~ m/^\s*PV\s+Name\s*(?<pv_name>\S+)\s*$ \n (^\s*PV\s+Name\s+(?<alt_link>\S+)\s+Alternate\s+Link\s*$ \n){0,20} # skip them ^\s*PV\s+Status\s+(?<pv_status>\S+)\s*$ \n ^\s*Total\s+PE\s+(?<total_pe>\S+)\s*$ \n ^\s*Free\s+PE\s+(?<free_pe>\d+)\s*$ \n ^\s*Autoswitch\s+(?<autoswitch>\S+)\s*$ \n ^\s*Proactive\s+Polling\s+(?<proactive_polling>\S+)\s*$ \n/gsmx) { my $pv_name = $+{pv_name}; print "matched $pv_name"; } </code> <p> Seems to DWIM. I genuinely cannot believe I've been gawping at that for so long. My thanks. </p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tagsshould contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-80839"> <br>davis<br> <div class="pmsig-80839"> <br> </div> </div></div> 976599 976602