Re^2: Help required on understanding regular expressions

I dont understand the code.. /(?<fname>\w+\b)\s(?<mname>\w+)\s(?<lname>\w+\s).*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/ what it is looking for from string?

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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]

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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}
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