Re: A tidier regex ?

What's the goal of the regex, validation, finding a match or extracting data from a line?

For extraction, the following should do:

/\b((?:CDC|DDCSMR|DDCRMR)\w*)/
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For matching, it simplifies to

/\b(?:CDC|DDCSMR|DDCRMR)/
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Re^2: A tidier regex ? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2010 at 14:18 UTC
It's for validation. These don't cater for the (underscores). These answers are opening up insight into Perl... I never realised it was so powerful.	[reply]
Re^3: A tidier regex ? by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 14, 2010 at 14:43 UTC
If you are validating, you should also anchor your regex to start and end of the string (and maybe allow leading and trailing whitespace). Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]
Re^3: A tidier regex ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2010 at 14:39 UTC
\w does match underscore.	[reply]
Re^4: A tidier regex ? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2010 at 14:58 UTC
It allows me to put CDC_ABC as a valid option, which I wish to reject. When I was looking for CDC_ABC_ABC for example.	[reply]
Re^5: A tidier regex ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2010 at 17:21 UTC