On 02/12/2020 13:56, Vlado Keselj wrote:
Well, it seems that the first one is what you want, but you just need to
use $1 and ignore $2.
You do need parentheses in '(mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)' but if you do not
want for them to be captured in $2, you can use:
'(?:mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)'. For example:
print "match3='$1' '$2'\n" if
($T=~/^((?:mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir) .{5,}?)\n/smi);
would give output:
match3='Miss Jayne Doe' ''
Perfect, thank you.
I can't ignore $2 as it's in a loop with other regex that genuinely
returns multiple matches. The amendment to the REGEX worked perfectly.
Gary
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