Hi monks, I am trying to search and replace a desired portion from a line using perl but not able to match regex to the end of a word. let me explain the issue below

Line: 

0 (0) tracegen chn:req cmd:SDP_CMD_RDSIZED unit:0x10 addr:0x0 len:0x3f
+ vc:0 qospri:0 qosfw:0 strm:0x0 chain:0 io:0

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Code: 

$line1 =~ s/addr\:0x.*\S/addr\:$address/;

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Result: 

0 (0) tracegen chn:req cmd:SDP_CMD_RDSIZED unit:0x10 addr:0x500000000

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Unfortunately my code is trimming the rest of the line after addr field which shouldn't happen.

expected result: 

0 (0) tracegen chn:req cmd:SDP_CMD_RDSIZED unit:0x10 addr:0x500000000 
+len:0x3f vc:0 qospri:0 qosfw:0 strm:0x0 chain:0 io:0

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Please suggest a solution to match next white space after addr field or to match end of string and replace. I've tried $, \s, \S, \z, \', etc. But doesn't worked well

2019-05-30 Athanasius added code tags

In reply to search and replace desired portion from a line by syedasadali95

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