Pattern matching with variable number

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I'm trying to replace the following using s// :

<input name="uid" type="checkbox" value="_8digits">
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Where _8digits is a variable 8 digit number. How can I program this regex to match for any pattern with any 8 digits from 0 to 9 in that section?

Thanks,
Ralph.

update (broquaint): changed <font> to <code> tags

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Re: Pattern matching with variable number by CombatSquirrel (Hermit) on Sep 15, 2003 at 11:19 UTC
Use `m/\d{8}/`, matching 8 digits in sequence. Cheers, CombatSquirrel. Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Pattern matching with variable number by LordWeber (Monk) on Sep 15, 2003 at 11:26 UTC
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Re: Pattern matching with variable number by dda (Friar) on Sep 15, 2003 at 11:21 UTC
`$s =~ /<input name="uid" type="checkbox" value="(\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d)">/ && print "match found: $1\n";` [download] Probably you need to process optional spaces and carriage returns as well.. Update: \d{8} is better :) Thanks CombatSquirrel!	[reply] [d/l]