Hello Perl_Programmer1992 and accept my welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of Perl!

Let's start from choroba's answer (note: I prefere square brackets to print variables): see it here live at WebPerl (WebPerl kindly provided by haukex)

The above works as you expected. But be careful with the * quantifier: it's greedy, very greedy! Learn about greediness at ModernPerl book .. well read all the book as side book while learning perl: it is not designed for beginner but is a great book, and free!

Also notice that you worked on a positive match, but you can also do the opposite: work on negative matches, ie match all non spaces \S like in this example

haukex was so kind to provide also a regex testing page: let's see our last regex against your string and another similar to choroba's one: regex live at webperl

As you can see there is a lot to play with!

HtH

PS if interested you can create links to webperl using my WebPerlizator - automating WebPerl (by haukex) page creation

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: Match variables : Beginner in perl -- webperl by Discipulus
in thread Match variables : Beginner in perl by Perl_Programmer1992

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