Dear Monks,

I'd like to seek the advice of the forum on a simple question

e.g. 

my $parse = ' ';
my $test_line = 'Happy Birthday';
$test_line =~/(Happy).*/;
$parse = $1;
print "parse = $parse\n";

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Result would be: 

parse = Happy

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,but if I combine line 3 and 4 to: 

$parse = $test_line =~/(Happy).*/;

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The result would be: 

parse = 1

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I understand that '1' means 'true' in this case, but I don't understand why can't I get the text 'Happy'.

I see the following syntex all the time, but for some reasons it doesn't work for me.

$var = $line =~ /pattern/;

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I tried looking for similar cases online, but couldn't find one.

Thank you so much,

DB

In reply to Regex question by DoubleBond

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