On 3/28/23 16:07, Uri Guttman wrote:
On 3/28/23 17:01, Martin McCormick wrote:
Uri Guttman <u...@perlhunter.com> writes:
why are you escaping the {}?? those are meta chars that are needed to
make
that a 5+ range. just delete the backslashes on them and it will work.
First, thank you but read on, please.
I couldn't agree more. That should do it but when I
don't escape them, I get:
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m//^\d+{ <-- HERE
3,}// at ./regex line 10.
you also quoted the whole regex in '' but included the // which are the
normal regex delimiters. remove the outer quotes.
and use the qr// form for regexes.
and you don't want the + after the \d as the {5,} is the count. you
can't have both types of repeat counts.
my $re = qr/^\d{5,}/ ;
that should be all you need.
read perlretut to learn more regex basics. you have escaping and quoting
mistakes in the original.
uri
I would think /^\d{5,6}/ would be what is needed? He wanted 5 or 6 digits.
--Sam
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