In my testing, I was unable to reproduce this behavior of  \s(\d+)$ vs  (\s\d+)$. I am using Perl 5.10.

Perl does a good job of hiding this \r\n ugliness from the user. In your working string with single quotes, you are actually getting a backslash then letter r, etc.

 my ($version) = $line =~ m/^Version:\s(\d+)\\r\\n$/; does match 'Version: 0\r\n'. Things change if you use double quotes.

I'm not quite sure, but I suspect that your test case string isn't doing what you expect. When Perl does a normal sort of a read, it will get rid of the \r (return) character. There is no need for you to do that yourself (except cases where you are reading binary bytes, etc).

Anyway I don't think your \r test case is a good one as you will never see that \r. The $end of string anchor will work fine on Windows or Unix.

In reply to Re: Can't match my regex by Marshall
in thread Can't match my regex by Saladino

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