in reply to seeking expression to match "/mysearch/detail/966031"

The basic problem stems from a too-liberal use of the  (?:\b|_) assertion.

The  $parse1 string begins with a  / (forward slash) character. This is not a \w character. The  (?:\b|_) assertions in  (?:\b|_)$parse1(?:\b|_) require that  $parse1 be preceded by a \w character or a  _ (underscore) (note that  _ is a member of the \w class), and followed by a non-\w character or a  _ (underscore).

What the OPed regex will match depends on the string it is matching against. I would advise giving us examples of typical strings. Below are some examples of mine that show various matches/non-matches:

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le "print qq{perl version: $] \n}; ;; my $parse1 = '/newsearch/detail/96603'; my $parse2 = ''; ;; for ( qq{xxx \n/newsearch/detail/96603\n xxx}, qq{xxx \n/newsearch/detail/96603x\n xxx}, qq{xxx \nx/newsearch/detail/96603x\n xxx}, qq{xxx \nx/newsearch/detail/96603\n xxx}, qq{bla vla/newsearch/detail/96603 x}, ) { print qq{<<$_>>}; print qq{MATCH '$&'} if /^.*?(?:\b|_)$parse1(?:\b|_).*?(?:\b|_)$parse2(?:\b|_).*?$/m; print ''; } " perl version: 5.008009 <<xxx /newsearch/detail/96603 xxx>> <<xxx /newsearch/detail/96603x xxx>> <<xxx x/newsearch/detail/96603x xxx>> <<xxx x/newsearch/detail/96603 xxx>> MATCH 'x/newsearch/detail/96603' <<bla vla/newsearch/detail/96603 x>> MATCH 'bla vla/newsearch/detail/96603 x'

Update: Because you give no examples of the typical strings you're matching against, I cannot understand the implications of the  ^.*? and  .*?$ and  .*?(?:\b|_)$parse2(?:\b|_) portions of the OPed regex (which I suspect may be superfluous), or why you are matching in  /m "multi-line" mode.


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