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in reply to reading from a text file

Your second regex does not match because of a space between the [45]TEST and and the rest of the line in the input. Try this regex:

/EQT.FIRST.eqtID_(\d+).allowedType:\s+([A-Z0-9])+)/

Notice the extra \s+ (match 1 or more whitespace characters).

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