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As this looks like fixed-length formatting, I wouldn't go with a regex at all, but with...
Cheers, Ben. Update: as would hardburn :)my ($desc,$code) = unpack("A60 A*",$line);#or however long 1st field i +s. $description_hash{$code}=$desc;
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