in reply to pattern matching
Hi changalrai......i hope my following code will help you. Suppose that your data is in SOPW.txt file .The the following code will retrieve what you wanted.
#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open (my $fh, "<", "c:/SOPW.txt") or die "can't open the file :$!"; while (<$fh>){ chomp; if(m/\w+:(.*);/){ print "$1\n"; } }
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