Hello very smart monks. I'm trying to match the following text in a text file: "/newsearch/detail/96603" I actually have a bunch of these and I can fish most things out and get them into another text file but this string is stumping me. I think it's the '/' that's messing me up. The text starts the same way but the trailing number are all different. Here is my code:

 #push @matches, $_ if /^.*?(?:\b|_)$parse1(?:\b|_).*?(?:\b|_)$parse2(?:\b|_).*?$/m;

I tried "/newsearch/detail/" for $parse1 and a blank $parse2 and several other things but no luck. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide this monk in training!

In reply to seeking expression to match "/mysearch/detail/966031" by Anonymous Monk

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