Hello three18ti,

Since the rule name can be any alphanumeric string including _ a simple "\w+" won't suffice.

I should think something like  [\w\_]+ would work: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $testval = "KUNG_FOO=bar";

if ($testval =~ /([\w\_]+)/)
{
    my $keyname = $1;
    print "KEY = [$keyname]\n";
}

exit;

__END__

C:\Steve\Dev\PerlMonks\P-2013-10-16@0800-Underscore>testregex.pl
KEY = [KUNG_FOO]

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In reply to Re: Lexing: how to define tokens based on "context" by marinersk
in thread Lexing: how to define tokens based on "context" by three18ti

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