Greetings All.

I'm seeking the greater wisdom of PerlMonks on patter matching issue that's been plaguing me. It's probably something obvious, but I appear to be blind to it. Running a simple script that query's LDAP, via Net::LDAP, and have it report back Seat data that does not follow the expected pattern, easier explained by Test Cases below. Here's the snippet of code used for processing data retrieved from LDAP: 

for($c=0; $c < $totalFound; $c++) 
   {
     
     my $SeatLoc = $entries[$c]->get_value('SeatLocation');

     if ($SeatLoc =~ /(\b[A-Z]{1}\d{1}\.\d+[A-Z]*)/) {
       print "Valid Seat Found: $SeatLoc.\n";
     } else {
       print "Found Invalid Seat: $SeatLoc\n";
     } 

   }

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Believe I've got the correct RegEx for the pattern match, tested on 'My Regex Tester' but cannot seem to get it to work in Perl, doesn't match on a single one.

Test Cases:

  • A1.23BC - Correct
  • U2.60L - Correct
  • R2.32 - Correct
  • C1.3L - Correct
  • AB3.45E - Invalid
  • D45.1A - Invalid
  • Some Bldg - Invalid

    • Please help me find my way back to the right path.

    Thanks!

    In reply to Perl will not match my RegEx pattern.... by FierceMoose

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