Re: Problem parsing an error msg with regex

\w+ doesn't match spaces. Use [^\]]+ instead:
$errmsg =~ /^((?:\[[^\]]+\]){3})(.*)/; or
$errmsg =~ s/^(?:\[[^\]]+\]){3}//;

Update: The directions were correct, but the code was missing a set of parens.

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Re^2: Problem parsing an error msg with regex by periapt (Hermit) on Oct 07, 2004 at 14:19 UTC
Thanks for the idea. I'm afraid your regex didn't work but the problem was, indeed, the spaces. I rewrote the expression as `$errmsg =~ /^ # start at beginning of string (?: # look at first group \[ # an opening square bracket [\w ]+ # followed by one or more word char/spaces ] # followed by a closing square bracket ) # end first group {3} # capture should be 1 time ( # begin second capture .+ # match anything else 1 or more times ) # close second capture` [download] and it works as needed. Thanks again PJ use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Problem parsing an error msg with regex
by periapt (Hermit) on Oct 07, 2004 at 14:19 UTC

$errmsg =~ /^         # start at beginning of string
             (?:      # look at first group
              \[      # an opening square bracket
              [\w ]+  # followed by one or more word char/spaces
              ]       # followed by a closing square bracket
             )        # end first group
              {3}     # capture should be 1 time 
             (        # begin second capture
              .+      # match anything else 1 or more times
             )        # close second capture
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PJ
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