Whoops! Kind of a typo, I was trying something different and forgot about that. I just went and changed it but I am still having the problem.

Here are two example lines I am examining: 

F111406585_D072203_B085_E087_T047-P085_FCC_07222003_539.cdr
USL_111406585_P085_A87_030723

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The first line, the date is 07222003, but it reports the 1114 that is found just after the 'F' in the beginning of the line. If in my code I take out the last $MMDD I then get '1406' returned for both lines. If I now take out $DDMM as well I then get 072203 for line 1 and a statement that there is no match for line 2. Now I take out $MMDDYY and I finally get 07222003 for line one and a statemant that line 2 does not match.

It appears as if the match is happening from right to left, but that just didn't make sense to me.

In reply to Re: Re: qr() match order with multiple patterns by gnu@perl
in thread qr() match order with multiple patterns by gnu@perl

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