I'm hoping one (or more) of you can help me on my path to enlightment.I'm trying to match a string and pull out the appropriate data. The string can be in one of three forms:' 3d', ' 3d 2h', ' 6h'. What I have now (which works) is: $value =~
/^(?:(?:(\d+)d)?\s*(?:(\d+)h){1})|(?:(?:(\d+)d){1}\s*(?:(\d+)h)?)$/i;
my $day = $1 || $3 || 0;
my $hour = $2 || $4 || 0;
But it's rather of painful to look at. What alternatives exist? I suspect there is a way to only specify each match once, and not use '|', but...If it makes any difference, this is running on ActiveState 5.6.0 (build 616)
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