Re: A Regular Expression Problem in Perl 5.28
[email protected] ("Martin McCormick") Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:48:00 -0500
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Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes: > you also quoted the whole regex in '' but included the // which are the > normal regex delimiters. remove the outer quotes. > and use the qr// form for regexes. > and you don't want the + after the \d as the {5,} is the count. you can't > have both types of repeat counts. > my $re = qr/^\d{5,}/ ; > > that should be all you need. It was and it works now! Thank you. Martin