in reply to Regular Expression for MAC Address

Try this one:
((?:(\d{1,2}|[a-fA-F]{1,2}){2})(?::|-*)){6}
Example Usage (extract MAC address):
my $string = 'tu0 1500 <Link> 00-00-f8-05-c8-20'; $string =~ m/^.+ ( # Start back reference capture for MAC Address ((?:(\d{1,2}|[a-fA-F]{1,2}){2})(?::|-*)){6} ) # End back reference $/xms; print "$1\n" if (defined $1);
NB: This will also work with MAC like:
my $string = 'tu0   1500  <Link>  00:00:f8:05:c8:20';

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Re^2: Regular Expression for MAC Address
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2011 at 17:10 UTC