Hi Monks!
I have an array with account numbers in it, and I am trying to separate the array elements using some reg. exp. My question is why is the first IF result showing second and I am looking for it first in my code, please any help why, here is the samplecode:

my @account = qw(34765-22333-333489-99867-22340-23456-3229 XLM8876 AMP
+7765 WQP22349);
my @chk_acc = split('-',@account);

    foreach my $checked (@chk_acc) 
     {
       chomp();
       if($checked=~/^(\w{3})(\d{4,7})/ig)
        {
          # it should print the accounts starting with letters here
         print "*$checked*<br>";
         
         }else{
               # else the rest of the accounts not starting with any l
+etters
               print"-$checked-<br>";
               }
               
     }

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Thanks!

In reply to Regular Exp. in foreach loop Help! by Anonymous Monk

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