Re^2: Capture groups

The regex above will capture trailing spaces in the $1 variable ([A-Za-z\s]*). It's probably easier to just get rid of them after the match, with $match[0] =~ s/\s+$//; otherwise you'll need a fancier regex :-)

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Re^3: Capture groups by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 05, 2008 at 12:33 UTC
IMO, it's "easier" to get rid of the trailing spaces (not required by OP, so Joost's correct answer is perfectly serviceable for the specs given) in the original match: `if ( $string =~ /([A-Za-z]\s[A-Za-z])\s+([0-9]{1,2}[%])/ ) { print $1 . "\n" . $2; # ^ } else ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]