Is the following doing what you wanted ?
use warnings; use strict; while (my $address = <DATA>) { my ($street, $number) = ( $address =~ / \A # start of s +tring ( \w{3} \. \s \w{3} \s \w{3} ) # 'aaa. bbb +ccc' \s # followed b +y a space (?:nr\. \s )? # optional ' +nr. ' \w{3} # 'ddd' (\d+) # 'ddd...' /ix ); print "Street: $street, Number: $number\n"; } exit; __DATA__ aaa. bbb ccc nr. ddd23-56


Krambambuli
---
Enjoying Mark Jason Dominus' (aka Dominus) "Higher-Order Perl"

In reply to Re: Need help with perl regexp by Krambambuli
in thread Need help with perl regexp by flaviusm

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.