On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George <[email protected]>wrote:
> $_ = " H K53 deloresg Bills Hank99
> Pellinor";
> if (/\s*(\w+)\s*(\w+)\*(\w+)\s*(\w+)\s*(\w+)\s*(\w+)/i) {
>
This pattern is missing the "\s" after the second (\w+). The "\*" matches a
literal asterisk - which isn't in the string. So the match fails. Add the
"s" and it does what you expect.
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Robert Wohlfarth
