Hi Monks,

I am reading lines from a file and getting confused on the quotes and regex stuff!!!!

I want 2a to work. I want to setup some $VALID regex rules up front and then compare them to lines in my file... 
$VALID1 = '[-a-zA-Z0-9_.*\s]';

$line1a = "[no\nluck]";
$line1b = "[no\nluck]";
$line2a = '[no\nluck]'; # FROM A read(<FILE>)
$line2b = '[no\nluck]'; # FROM A read(<FILE>)

print "luck1a\n"  if $line1a =~  /\[\s*($VALID1+)\s*\]/m;
print "luck1b\n"  if $line1b =~  /\[\s*([a-z\s]+)\s*\]/m;
print "luck2a\n"  if $line2a =~  /\[\s*($VALID1+)\s*\]/;   #DESIRED
print "luck2b\n"  if $line2b =~  /\[\s*([a-z\s]+)\s*\]/;

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