Also consider that a "channel" number with more than four digits will produce a match:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "my $text = shift; print qq{text '$text'}; ;; my $match = my ($band, $channel) = $text =~ /Signal LTE-FDD (\d{1,2}) +; Channel (\d{3,4})/i; ;; if ($match) { print qq{band '$band' channel '$channel'}; } else { print 'no match'; } " "Signal LTE-FDD 45; Channel 123456789" text 'Signal LTE-FDD 45; Channel 123456789' band '45' channel '1234'
You may want to use the  \A \z string beginning/end assertions or a  (?!\d) negative look-ahead to limit such matches. See Assertions and Look-Around Assertions in perlre.

Update: Note also that use of the  $& regex special variable or its "friends"  $` $' anywhere in a script imposes significant regex matching performance penalties everywhere in the script. See perlvar.


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In reply to Re: Quick Regex question by AnomalousMonk
in thread Quick Regex question by State_Space

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