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On 3/28/23 16:07, Uri Guttman wrote:
> On 3/28/23 17:01, Martin McCormick wrote:
>> Uri Guttman <uri@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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