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in reply to regular expression not matching

ghosh123: You may find davido's Perl Regular Expression Tester useful for seeing the effects of varions regex/string combinations. Also see YAPE::Regex::Explain for off-line explainations of the components of regexes with pre-5.8 syntax, which the regexes shown by you in this thread seem to be.