/\b(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})\sPerl\sParty/gs
You don't have any dots in this regexp, so the /s is useless. You might feel like I'm nitpicking, and I am: I wouldn't mind its presence in actual production code.

But this is a site for earning learning, you shouldn't set a bad example, too many people are cargo culting code (especially regular expressions) from this site already, so I think we should releave the code we post here from any voodoo as much as possible, so people will actually begin to understand the code they're copying.

Thank you.

In reply to Re^2: Counting frequency of expressions in a string by bart
in thread Counting frequency of expressions in a string by New Novice

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