Regular expressions can have a /x qualifier. It allows embedded comments and for the regular expression to be formatted for easy reading. To get a literal space you have to either

for example to match "one two" you have I use the latter as the space is easier to see with a mark both sides.

I used /x to make it easier for you to see the alternations. You can remove it along with the comment (# to end of line), white space not in a character class and then change "[ ]" to " ".

I am now a little confused about what you are matching. You say you are given the string to match as an argument but you have two different strings "total rows rejected: number" and "number rows rejected". If you do put the argument into a regular expression then you are correct to use \Q \E.

In reply to Re^3: search pattern with digits by hipowls
in thread search pattern with digits by mercuryshipz

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