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While not directly addressing your explicit question...

If your underlying problem is validating MAC addresses, then Net::Address::Ethernet might be of some interest.   Particularly the is_address function.

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Update: I looked through Regexp::Common, but found nothing I recognized as parsing MAC address.   8^P

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Re: Re: Long regexp un multiple lines
by Lorand (Beadle) on Apr 23, 2004 at 16:29 UTC
    Yes, when I searched on the net for the regexp, I've seen that module, but why use an extra module, if it is possible without and quite simply? If I needed to check more address types, maybe...
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