Very recent perl on Cygwin

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 32 subversion 1) configuration +: Platform: osname=cygwin osvers=3.2.0(0.34053) archname=x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi uname='cygwin_nt-10.0 cygwinpro 3.2.0(0.34053) 2021-03-29 08:42 x8 +6_64 cygwin '

Why doesn't this give just the ip address without a trailing ')'??

#!/usr/bin/perl my $ip = "csteppfw pts/0 2022-06-27 15:53 (192.168.5.100)"; $ip =~ s/.*?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+).*?/\1/; ## $line =~ s/.*$ip//; print "$ip\n"; -------------------- $ bin/test 192.168.5.100)

In reply to This should be simple by steppnav

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