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in reply to Re: Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String
in thread Regular Expression to Extract Anything from Colon Delimited String

This did the trick: 
my ($a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h,$i) =split(/:/,$line);

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