Hi Monks,

I have that small piece of code and the output below. Do you have any idea about what is wrong?

What I want to perform is to select lines which do not have : at the first word.

This regexp works as expected on web based regular expression testers but not on the system.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.. 
my @arry=(
        'bond0.2 Link encap:Ethernet',
        'bond4.3:6 Link encap:Ethernet',
        'bond3 Link encap:Ethernet',
        'bond5:0 Link encap:Ethernet',
        'bond1.5:2 Link encap:Ethernet',
        'bond2.6 Link encap:Ethernet'
);

foreach (@arry)
{
        /^([\w\.]+)\s+Link.*$/;
        if($1)
        {
                printf "Array item: %-30s\tmatch: %s\n",$_,$1;
        }
}

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=---- Output ----= 
Array item: bond0.2 Link encap:Ethernet         match: bond0.2
Array item: bond4.3:6 Link encap:Ethernet       match: bond0.2
Array item: bond3 Link encap:Ethernet           match: bond3
Array item: bond5:0 Link encap:Ethernet         match: bond3
Array item: bond1.5:2 Link encap:Ethernet       match: bond3
Array item: bond2.6 Link encap:Ethernet         match: bond2.6

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