... it wont accept any of these ...

Not sure what you mean by 'it' (since you do not supply a self-contained, runnable code example) or 'these' (since you don't supply the data in your strings), but your code (as well as all the possibilities suggested by davido) seems to work for me. 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $str = 'NOTICE AUTH :*** Bla bla must type /QUOTE PASS 16934';
 my $pass;
 ($pass) = $str =~ m{/QUOTE\sPASS\s(.*?)$};
 print qq{'$pass'};
"
'16934'

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In reply to Re^3: regex not working.. by AnomalousMonk
in thread regex not working.. by Anonymous Monk

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