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in reply to How to improve regex for parsing equals delimited data

Another way to do it:

while ( <DATA> ) { $_ = reverse; my @fld; unshift @fld, scalar reverse $1 while s/(.+?)\s*=\s*\S+\s*//; print join( ',', @fld ), "\n"; }