in reply to Regex with two strings from files

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Please see SSCCE. As noted by haukex elsewhere today, "more != better". If your issue is with a regexp, please post code that shows the regexp, some sample input, and the desired output (in <code></code> tags). All the extra code here is unneeded and makes it harder to see what is going on, which reduces your chances of getting a speedy answer.

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Re^2: Regex with two strings from files
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2017 at 02:36 UTC

    Noted on the more is NOT better and the positive suggestions. I guess it really is a simple regex question. How can I match a string that basically is a file path with a several /////s with a regex. Thanks again!

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      c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $s = 'this is the path/to/my/file what i want';
 ;;
 my $rx_ptf = qr{ \w+ (?: / \w+)+ }xms;
 ;;
 print qq{matched: '$1'} if $s =~ m{ \b ($rx_ptf) \b }xms;
"
matched: 'path/to/my/file'

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      The  qr// m// s/// delimiters are (more or less) arbitrary. (Update: Please see Regexp Quote-Like Operators in perlop.)

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