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I'm getting the following error:

Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE v\d{2}\.\d{2}(a-z\d{3})/

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Re^7: regex trouble
by amir_e_a (Hermit) on Mar 05, 2010 at 11:31 UTC

    You probably only need one opening bracket in the beginning and one closing in the end:

    m/(v\d{2}\.\d{2}-[a-z]\d{3})/

    Brackets should usually match - for every opening bracket there must be one closing bracket.