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You make a good point about splitting on a record separator within possibly malformed records. Based upon the OP's regex, it appears that the pattern's stable--with one space after the semi-colon. However, we can ask split to 'test' the format of the input, like this:

my $info = (split /\s*;\s*/, $dat)[1];
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This will return the info the OP wants, whether there are spaces before or after the semi-colon, or not.

And within a regex on the OP's data:

use Modern::Perl;

my $dat = 'DR Pfam; PF00070; Pyr_redox; 2.';
$dat =~ /;\s*(\w+)\s*;.+;/ and say $1;    #prints PF00070
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It was a good call to address this issue...

In reply to Re^3: Regex Extraction Help by Kenosis
in thread Regex Extraction Help by invaderzard

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