The regex  /^(?<weight>\d+)\s*$/ is "anchored" to both the start and end of a string and would match something | only something like  '123  ' (I think — untested | I know — tested), which appears nowhere in your  $x string. Try something like: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $x = '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15';
 print qq{'$x'};
 ;;
 printf qq{'$+{weight}' } while $x =~ m{ (?<weight> \d+) }xmsg;
"
'1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15'
'1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9' '10' '11' '12' '13' '14' '15'

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(Update: You were print-ing  $+{weight} regardless of whether or not there had been a match!)

Update: A slightly different problem and approach: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $rx_weight = qr{ (?<!          \d)    \d+       (?!          \d) }
+xms;
 my $rx_units  = qr{ (?<! [[:alpha:]]) [[:alpha:]]+ (?! [[:alpha:]]) }
+xms;
 ;;
 my $x = '12 lbs   234    kgs 567 groats  foo42kg7lb';
 print qq{'$x'};
 ;;
 while ($x =~ m{
   \G .*? (?<weight> $rx_weight) \s* (?<units> $rx_units)
   }xmsg
   ) {
   my ($weight, $units) = @+{ qw(weight units) };
   print qq{for debug: got '$weight' '$units'};
   if ($units =~ m{ (?i) kgs? }xms) {
     print qq{metric: $weight};
     }
   elsif ($units =~ m{ (?i) lbs? }xms) {
     print qq{English: $weight};
     }
   else {
     print qq{unknown units '$units': $weight};
     }
   }
"
'12 lbs   234    kgs 567 groats  foo42kg7lb'
for debug: got '12' 'lbs'
English: 12
for debug: got '234' 'kgs'
metric: 234
for debug: got '567' 'groats'
unknown units 'groats': 567
for debug: got '42' 'kg'
metric: 42
for debug: got '7' 'lb'
English: 7

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Please see perlre, perlretut, and perlrequick.

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In reply to Re: Regular expression by AnomalousMonk
in thread Regular expression by pravakta

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