Hello Monks,

I was working on regex in perl and I am stuck at one problem. The code that I wrote is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $str = "TEST_ENVIRONMENT    OS_NAME=AIX    BUILD_TYPE=    KERNEL_BI
+TNESS=64    USER_BITNESS=32    OS_RELEASE=6.1.0.0    CPU_CLASS=powerp
+c    MACHINE_CLASS=IBM,8203-E4A    HOSTNAME=lcla114    NUM_CPUS=5    
+CUSTOM=    ";
my $machine_class = ($str =~ /MACHINE_CLASS=\s*(\w*)/);
print "MACHINE CLASS=$machine_class";

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As a output of above code I am not getting IBM . Instead, I am getting number 1. So where I am doing mistake? I want to match the string and extract the required value and then have to store that value in the variable and print it.

If anybody knows where I am doing that mistake then let me know about.Thanks in advance !!!!!

In reply to @ Regular Expression by siddheshsawant

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