m/ www # match literal 'www' . # match any single character except \n. [a-z] # match any single character between a and z. | # OR [A-Z] # match any single character between A and Z. . # match any single character except \n. [a-z] # match any single character between a and z. /ix # /i makes everything case-insensitive, so there's # no difference between [A-Z] and [a-z].