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Perl: How to find digits folloed by specific string

Hi there,

I have a string like:

"This thread took 90ms and something here."
I want to check a file for lines like this and extract the time value. The time value will always be followed by ms.

How can I do it?

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8/22/2022 - Mon
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Thanks farzanj:
And how can I test if the line actually have a [digits]ms as a word?
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