Re^4: why is regex not matching final character?

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in reply to Re^3: why is regex not matching final character?
in thread why is regex not matching final character?

sounds like you know your regexes. Thinking about the whole thing again all I need is the code below because \w does not match spaces so will stop at the first space.

if ($line =~ m/^update\ (\w*)/){
  print $1."\n";
}