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Business::FedEx::DirectConnect, used for estimating FedEx shipping costs (and errors), returns a response that uses quotes and commas as "delimiters:"

"F059"3,"Invalid Recipient postal code format for specified country."99,""

I'm interested in parsing what comes after the "3,". I started with a funky looking:

if ($response =~ /"3,"([\w \!\@\#\$\%\*\&\(\)\-\+\=\.\/\?\,\:\;\']+)"/
+i) {
   $error = $1;
}

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I next tried a cleaner, and successful:

$response =~ /3",([^"]+.+)"/;

However, I have read caveats about using the greedy .+, however the negated character class [^"] seems to save me.

Is there a faster/safer/better regex for this? Thanks in advance.


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Regex negation (or golf) by bradcathey

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