Re: Regex for matching a word followed by digits plus :

It fails to match because the pattern isn't found in those strings. If "OUTPUT" indicates the output you desire, the pattern should be

/-\s(\w+)[.0-9]*\s:/
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or just

/-\s(\w+)/
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Re^2: Regex for matching a word followed by digits plus : by happy.barney (Friar) on Feb 20, 2011 at 08:39 UTC
`/-\b(\S+)\b\s:/` ?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Regex for matching a word followed by digits plus : by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 20, 2011 at 20:45 UTC
That would not produce the provided output.	[reply]
Re^4: Regex for matching a word followed by digits plus : by happy.barney (Friar) on Feb 22, 2011 at 05:36 UTC
oops typo :-) first \b should be \s	[reply]
Re^5: Regex for matching a word followed by digits plus : by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2011 at 07:27 UTC