It's difficult to know what should and shouldn't match from your limited examples, especially as I see the opposite to your claim of which matches (even after fixing your typo): 
for ( 'A_TAG_HSSL_LBA_1', 'A_TAG_HSSL_LBAB_1' ) {
    if( ! /A_[A_Z0-9_]+/i) {
        print "$_ is not matching\n";
    }
    else {
        print "$_ matches\n";
    }
}

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Produces:

A_TAG_HSSL_LBA_1 matches
A_TAG_HSSL_LBAB_1 is not matching

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I think the regexp is matching somewhere other than where you think it's matching. A_TAG_HSSL_LBA_1 is matched at A_1, not at the start.

I suspect the regexp you're after is really 

/^           # start of string
  A_         # must start "A_"
  [A-Z0-9_]+ # at least one capital, digit or underscore
 $           # end of string
/ix          # allow spaces and comments inside regexp
             # and ignore case

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Or, /^A_[A-z0-9_]+$/i in short. But, since you're ignoring case (which I just noticed), [A-Z0-9_] are just "word" characters, so your regexp reduces to: /^A_\w+$/i

Of course, this is all guesswork, so it could well be all wrong.

In reply to Re: Regular expression query by FunkyMonk
in thread Regular expression query by isha

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