Hi Monks!

I need to extract the zip code from a strange file path,I have a solution, just want to ask if there is a better way of doing this. here is the sample code to show my version of the regular expression I am using:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


print "\n";


my $file_1 = '-/yf/-/22211_01_09_2000_XYz.pdf';
# Just to show that the "hyphen" can be in any place in the path.
my $file_2  = '_/gt/-/02239_04_04_1989_PkW.pdf';
my $file_3  = '-/xy/-/02239_04_04_1989_PkW.pdf';

my ($zip) = $file_1 =~ /^[\w\-]+\/[\w\-]+\/[\w\-]+\/(\d{5})_/;

print  "\n\n *$zip* \n\n\n";

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Matching hyphens in file path to extract zip code by Anonymous Monk

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