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active perl regex

Hi
I have this string which I need to extract the bold text from it using regex in active perl.
the regex I include is not cutting it. pls. help. thx

Breakout Trade: SELL EUR/JPY @ 101.42 Stop @ 101.77 Target #1 @ 101.17 Target #2 @ 100.97 Target #3 @ 100.82

if ($body =~m{.+?(buy|sell)\s+(.+?)\s+@\s+([\d.]+)\s+stop.*?([\d.]+).+?@\s([\d.]+).+?@\s([\d.]+).+?@\s([\d.]+)}ismxg){
						push @entries, {
							action => $1,
							cur    => $2,
							price  => $3,
							sl     => $4,
							t1     => $5,
							t2     => $6,
							t3     => $7,
						};

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Robert Schutt

sometimes \s has a + other times not, so if there are several spaces it will fail.

I tried it as shown above (with 1 space in between all words/numbers), printed out $1 etc, and they are ok.

If this is not it, maybe the problem is in the push or the following part where you process @entries?

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samj

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I tried fixing the \s to \s+ for no avail.
I tried the code supplied by kaufmed for no avail.

here is the exact data

Breakout Trade: SELL EUR/JPY  101.42 Stop  101.77 Target #1  101.17 Target #2  100.97 Target #3
 100.82

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kaufmed

Where did the @ symbols go?

samj

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it has been removed in an earlier code line.
$body=~s/@//g;
I now have this

.+?(buy|sell)\s+(.+?)\s+([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+)

which matches but it does not save the whole number in $5 and $7

samj

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I ended up doing this which worked.

$body=~s/@|Target\s+#\d\s+@//g; 
if ($body =~m{.+?(buy|sell)\s+(.+?)\s+([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+).+?([\d.]+)}ismxg){

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samj

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ozo:
this is almost there, it did not skip over the @ in "EUR/JPY @"

ozo

You just told us that the exact data to be matched was

Breakout Trade: SELL EUR/JPY  101.42 Stop  101.77 Target #1  101.17 Target #2  100.97 Target #3
 100.82

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with no @

Breakout Trade: SELL EUR/JPY  101.42 Stop  101.77 Target #1  101.17 Target #2  100.97 Target #3
 100.82

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samj

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sorry Ozo. it is my bad. here is the exact data.

Breakout Trade: SELL EUR/JPY @ 101.42 Stop @ 101.77 Target #1 @ 101.17 Target #2 @ 100.97 Target #3
@ 100.82

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samj

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thank you.