I've got some quick and dirty code that I'm using to parse some logs. A typical line that I'm feeding to my regex looks like this:
ASCII data in TCP pkt from 111.11.111.111/1162 to local port 7070: !
The regex I'm using looks like this:
/[^\d]+([^ ]+)[^\d](\d+)(.*?)$/;
print "$1\n$2\n$3\n";

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This should yield: 
111.11.111.111/1162
7070
!

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It doesn't.
What I get instead is this:
111.11.111.111
1162
to local port 7070: !

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For some reason the ([^ ]+) section stops at the forward slash, even though it's clearly not a space.
If I change that part of the RE to ([^ ]+?), making it less greedy, it stops matching at the first period in the IP address, even though a period is still not a space!
I'm at a loss to explain why this seemingly simple RE insists on frappeing my brain. Anybody run into something similar? Am I missing some key knowledge that I should be smacking my forehead and saying "D'oh!" for? FWIW, I'm using ActiveState's Perl 5.6 in case this may be one of those bugs I keep hearing about.
TIA


Guildenstern
Negaterd character class uber alles!

In reply to Matching (non)spaces in regex? by Guildenstern

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