in reply to Regex failing

No-no-no, why do you think it should not fail?
And hint: you can use different separators instead of slashes - s/find/replace/ can be s|find|replace, for example.

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Re^2: Regex failing
by iphone (Beadle) on Feb 03, 2011 at 10:21 UTC
    Where is my understanding wrong? 
    (my $file_name) = $line =~ /
                        \/ #match a front slash "/"
                       [^\/]#dont match any more frontslashes
                       (.*)#match everything after / and save
                        \s-\s#match a " - "
                        /;

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      Hmmm... semicolon? previously you said it begins with semicolon: 
      (my $file_name) = $line =~ /;\/[^\/](.*)\s-\s/;

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