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in reply to Regex, query

It works for me. Are you sure there is a whitespace after E123456? If you are sure that the REF is the last element in the input, you might want to use a greedy capture instead: change  (.*?) to  (.*)

Alternatively, you could append a whitespace to your input before applying the regex ($reqtext .= " ";)

HTH, Rata

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Re^2: Regex, query
by dmsparts (Sexton) on Jan 24, 2013 at 16:13 UTC

    Thanks. adding the whitespace at the end did the trick.

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