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in reply to accumulating rex-exp matches in an array

while (<INFILE>) {
   while (s/(AAA\.\d)/xxxxx/) {
     push (@list, $1);
   }
}

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or if the items are always seperated by a space. 
while (<DATA>) {
   push (@foo, grep /AAA\.\d/, split(/\s*,\s*/));
}

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