17:26 >perl 1526_SoPW.pl The regular expression: (?x-ims: \b ( (\d+) \s \S+ ) (.*?) \s \2 \s (\S+) ) matches as follows: NODE EXPLANATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (?x-ims: group, but do not capture (disregarding whitespace and comments) (case-sensitive) (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not matching \n): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \b the boundary between a word char (\w) and something that is not a word char ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ( group and capture to \1: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ( group and capture to \2: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \d+ digits (0-9) (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of \2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \S+ non-whitespace (all but \n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of \1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ( group and capture to \3: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .*? any character except \n (0 or more times (matching the least amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of \3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \2 what was matched by capture \2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ( group and capture to \4: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \S+ non-whitespace (all but \n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1 or more times (matching the most amount possible)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of \4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ) end of grouping ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:26 >