REGEX to extract word connected to nearest semicolon?

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Published on 2012-09-28T21:35:42Z Indexed on 2012/09/28 21:37 UTC
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I'm attempting to extract a series of data values from a text file.

The values are in the format: <MODIFIER NAME1 VALUE; MODIFIER NAME2 VALUE;>

For the purposes of the current task that I have, I only care about extracting the VALUE that is situated next to each semicolon. What would the REGEX command look like that would isolate each of these VALUES (preferably so that I backreference all values in the replacement part of my processing.) I believe that ^(.*?); is somehow used, but I'm not seeing how to isolate only the word that is attached to the semicolon in a group for backreference use.

Thanks!

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