Hello again,
You guys and gals and monks have been SO helpful in the past I am turning to you again with a question.

I have the following expression :

 $vacation_str =~ s/((msg|vacation.msg)|a(cation.msg|t(ation.msg|ition
+.msg))|catation.msg|g|i(on.msg|tion.msg)|msg|n.msg|on.msg|sg|t(ation.
+msg|i(on.msg|tion.msg))|vacation.msg)//;

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I was thinking about rewriting it to be a bit shorter and therefore easier to follow and so I tried this $vacation_str =~ s/(v??a??c??a??t??i??o??n??\.??m??s??g??)//; however it does not match anything within the real program. My test one works, but the live edition does not.
The reasoning for this is to remove a possible duplicate or partial of the phrase vacation.msg in the output that is from some buggy vendor code. They plan on fixing it eventually..... but on the whole I would like my wraper to work for it right now.

Thanks for looking this over
Jack

In reply to Rewrite a Regular Expression to be easier to understand by Anonymous Monk

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