Re: Help required on understanding regular expressions

The "]" was facing the wrong way, and I don't know why you used the "\k". This one works:

/(?<fname>\w+\b)\s(?<mname>\w+)\s(?<lname>\w+\s).*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/
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Re^2: Help required on understanding regular expressions by bimleshsharma (Beadle) on Feb 21, 2012 at 06:37 UTC
I dont understand the code.. `/(?<fname>\w+\b)\s(?<mname>\w+)\s(?<lname>\w+\s).*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/` what it is looking for from string?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Help required on understanding regular expressions by NetWallah (Canon) on Feb 21, 2012 at 16:35 UTC
`/(?<fname>\w+\b) # Looks for "\w" (Word characters followed by a word +boundary (look up \w and \b) # and creates $+{name} \s(?<mname>\w+)\s # Same thing - Whitespace on both sides (?<lname>\w+\s) # Same thing .*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/ # looks for "[", followed by anything that is NOT + "]", and populates $+{date}` [download] All this is in the "perlre" document. “PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.” ― Jon Ribbens	[reply] [d/l]