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How will my regular expression match?

by hv (Prior)
on Jul 04, 2004 at 16:57 UTC ( [id://371722]=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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      ($match) = "The longest word" =~ /(\w+)/;
      print $match;
    
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      ($match) = "Mrs Smith" =~ /(Mr|Mrs)/;
      print $match;
    
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      ($match) = "/foo/bar" =~ m[.*/(.*)];
      print $match;
    
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      ($match) = "foo/bar/baz" =~ m[.*?/(.*)];
      print $match;
    
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      ($outer, $inner) = "/foo/bar" =~ m[(/(.+))*];
      print $inner;
    

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