Fellow monks,

I know I'm probably going to slap my forehead after I get a response for this but...

I've got a very simple regex which I want to just pull sequential digits out of a filename which is passed in - e.g. sfytd13.txt should return 13.

I'm using the following code: 

use strict;

my $file = 'file013.txt';
my $sk = $file =~ m/\d+/;

print $sk;

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Very simple, but the problem is that I'm only getting the '1' back. I realize that if I use parthensis matching $1 will return '013' but I'm curious as to why my code doesn't return 13.

My understanding is that \d+ is going to match a digit followed by any number of digits until I hit a non-digit. What am I missing here? Is something getting clobbered in the assignment?

Thanks in advance!

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

In reply to Regex not behaving as expected by Popcorn Dave

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