in reply to Re^2: Help with regular expression
in thread Help with regular expression

use warnings; use strict; while (<DATA>) { if (/^[a-z]+\s+\d{2}$/i) { print "PASS $_"; } else { print "FAIL $_"; } } __DATA__ xyz 12 45 xyz 123 xyz 12

outputs:

FAIL xyz 12 45 FAIL xyz 123 PASS xyz 12

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Re^4: Help with regular expression
by heman (Novice) on Nov 13, 2014 at 02:42 UTC
    Thanks toolic :) That works. I guess using boundary made the difference!