Re^4: words with numbers in them

I am trying to understand your regex, but i cannot understand why it is :

 $names =~ /(\S*\d\S*)/g )
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in stead of:

 $names =~ /(\S*\d+\S*)/g
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So i changed it and it seems this also works, so which is it?

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Re^5: words with numbers in them by tybalt89 (Monsignor) on Aug 02, 2018 at 01:35 UTC
Either, because anything matched by \d will also be matched by \S	[reply]


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