in reply to Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru

Go on, ask us. A great thing to add with regular expression related questions is a whole load of examples. For example if I was to ask about matching something which was 4 lowercase letters followed by two numbers i might add the following to my post:
should match: abcd12 dhof83 should not match: abc12 abcd1 a1cd12 abcd1a a bc12 abcd 2
Often what you want to do is best described by examples.

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