What qualifies as parsing 'out of it' ? Are you trying to remove it from the string, or pull it out for use in something else (without modifying the original string)? Do you want to remote it, and save it for use? If you remove it, and it was the only thing on the line, do you also want to remove the now blank line?

Also, could you show your loop? You didn't say if you're working on the data in place, or moving into some other strcture.

How is it giving you trouble? What code do you have that is not working?

Did not really have any code. Did not have a idea howto do it.
But after some more pondering:

my @array = (split/\n/, $data);

my $firstmatch = $array[3];
my $secondmatch = $array[4];
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But is this the best/fastes way. Got lots of files with this kind of data.

This happens over and over:

Open the file
split the records
parse this data 
insert it into db
close file
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I think you have an excellent solution using split and array access. There is no reason to use a regex when other solutions will work equally well. Often, a regex will be more complicated or more fragile.

Now, there are some parsing problems that are better solved with a regex, but this isn't one of them. And, personally, I only use a regex when I cannot use other solutions.

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I'm sure we could solve this problem, but I'm afraid you are trying to reinvent a thoroughly invented wheel. What you need is something like Text::Template or the Template Toolkit from CPAN. They do exactly what you are trying to implement. You'll save loads o' time, and have the leisure to go out and feast on pommes frites.