Hi Monks, I've the following code snippet: 
sub splitLine {
    my $line = shift;
    my $pattern = shift; # by default, it is "ERROR"
    my %header;
    #                     DD.MM.YYYY           HH:MM:SEC       USEC   
+     ERROR/WARN           [pool-def]   class-name   msg
    my $sPattern = '(\d{2}.\d{2}.\d{4}).*?(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}).\d{0,3}.
+*?\*(' . $pattern . ')\*.*?(\[.*?\]).(.*?\..*?\s+?)(.*)';

    if ($line =~ /$sPattern/s) {
        my $ts = parseLogEntryTimeStamp($1, $2);
        %header = ( 'timestamp' => $ts,
                    'date' => $1,
                    'time' => $2,
                    'severity' => $3,
                    'thread' => $4,
                    'class' => $5,
                    'msg' => $6);
        print "$7 \n";
        #doTrace %header;
    }
    return %header;
}

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The example input PARAM ($line) for this is: 
30.08.2016 08:00:00.004 *ERROR* [pool-7-thread-5] com.day.cq.reporting
+.impl.snapshots.SnapshotServiceImpl Error accessing repository during
+ creation of report snapshot data
javax.jcr.LoginException: Cannot derive user name for bundle com.day.c
+q.cq-reporting [313] and sub service null

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My goal is: cut into meaningful pieces this example text. My regex above works almost fine, except the last capture group. In perl, the last capture group only gives back this: 'Error accessing repository during creation of report snapshot data' In an online tester (https://regex101.com/r/eB7cR3/1) with the /s modifier, the last capture group gives back everything until the last char. Does anyone have any idea, why perl does not do the same? (or can you suggest another approach on this regex? It might be quite "messy" :D) Thanks a lot in advance for any advice!

In reply to regex with /s modifier does not provide the expected result by hunagyp

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