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in reply to Re: How do i extract 3 variables from each line in a file, and print them to a new file
in thread How do i extract 3 variables from each line in a file, and print them to a new file

Capturing doesn't work like that. You are overwriting $1 for each match.

Try something like 

my @nums = $_ =~ /(\d+)ms/g;

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if you want to capture all matches from a /g.

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