in reply to Regex Minimal Quantifiers

\d* also matches 0 digits

my $str = "I have 2 numbers: 53147"; if ( $str =~ /(.*?)(\d+)/ ) { print "<$1> <$2>\n"; } else { print "FAIL\n"; }
result
<I have > <2>

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Re^2: Regex Minimal Quantifiers
by pr33 (Scribe) on May 24, 2017 at 05:14 UTC

    Thanks Huck