Re^4: regular expression not matching

Well, I told you, that was wrongly pasted. I was trying with something and did not clean my code before pasting. So it was.
Basically that means some word followd by a '_' and '-'.
But yes, that is not going to work , it was wrong.

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Re^5: regular expression not matching by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2013 at 07:07 UTC
Basically that means some word followd by a '_' and '-'. Well actually no it doesn't, see perlintro#More complex regular expressions item 8. matches a single character in the given set, so it matches a single word character or dash, but only one character if you want to match it more than once, you have to use a quantifier like item 1 or item 2 from the quantifier list; or the second Quantifiers list in perlre So you might write `m{^Users of (.+?): \(Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) li +cense in use\)$}im m{^Users of ([^:]*): \(Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) +license in use\)$}im m{^Users of ([^:]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\d+) +license in use\)$}im m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\ +d+) license in use\)$}im m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\ +d+)}im` [download] Modern Perl ch 6 is also an introduction to regex	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: regular expression not matching
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2013 at 07:07 UTC

Basically that means some word followd by a '_' and '-'.

Well actually no it doesn't, see perlintro#More complex regular expressions

item 8. matches a single character in the given set, so it matches a single word character or dash, but only one character

if you want to match it more than once, you have to use a quantifier like item 1 or item 2 from the quantifier list; or the second Quantifiers list in perlre

So you might write

m{^Users of (.+?): \(Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) li
+cense in use\)$}im
m{^Users of ([^:]*): \(Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) 
+license in use\)$}im
m{^Users of ([^:]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\d+) 
+license in use\)$}im
m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\
+d+) license in use\)$}im
m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\
+d+)}im
[download]

Modern Perl ch 6 is also an introduction to regex

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