When you want to match a '.' exactly, you need to remove the special meaning. [.] is one way, \. is another. Here's what happens if you don't remove the special meaning and the URL doesn't have a trailing '.':

$ perl -wE 'while (<>) { my ($x) = $_ =~ /(https?:\S+?).?\s/; say $x; 
+}'
Bug found in the build. Please check check https://web.com/fluent/x/JI
+OUAQ for more details.
https://web.com/fluent/x/JIOUA

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In this instance it matches any character; there's no '.' so it matches the 'Q' which you can see has been removed in the output.

The \S+? does not remove the '.', it captures up to the '.'.

I've been saying any character throughout - it actually doesn't match a newline unless you use the 's' modifier - see Modifiers in perlre.

-- Ken

In reply to Re^5: Getting only the link in a line by kcott
in thread Getting only the link in a line by iphone

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