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in reply to Re: How to improve regex for parsing equals delimited data
in thread How to improve regex for parsing equals delimited data

Same idea in one operation, a little more robust, and using his original [A-Za-z]+ for fields...

my ($toss, @list) = split /\s*[A-Za-z]+\s*\=\s*/;

-sauoq
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