Re^2: regular expression not matching

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Ooops ... I am sorry, I just pasted the wrong code.
Actually I have been using this
It was working fine as long as there was no _ and - But now , how it is to be changed to take care of '_' and '-' ?

if(/^Users of (\w+):\s+\(Total of ([0-9]+) licenses issued;\s+Total of
+ ([0-9]+) (licenses|license) in use/)
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Re^3: regular expression not matching by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2013 at 06:41 UTC
how it is to be changed to take care of '_' and '-' ? Can you answer my question from Re: regular expression not matching?	[reply]
Re^4: regular expression not matching by ghosh123 (Monk) on Mar 13, 2013 at 06:46 UTC
Yes , I am not able to figure out. All I understand is (\w+) is not matching Galaxy-FP or so. Please help me with the solution.	[reply]
Re^5: regular expression not matching by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2013 at 06:53 UTC
Yes , I am not able to figure out. Well, I was thinking about the second question , can you explain what (\w+\_\-) means?	[reply]
Re^4: regular expression not matching by ghosh123 (Monk) on Mar 13, 2013 at 06:59 UTC
Well, I told you, that was wrongly pasted. I was trying with something and did not clean my code before pasting. So it was. Basically that means some word followd by a '_' and '-'. But yes, that is not going to work , it was wrong.	[reply]
Re^5: regular expression not matching by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2013 at 07:07 UTC
Basically that means some word followd by a '_' and '-'. Well actually no it doesn't, see perlintro#More complex regular expressions item 8. matches a single character in the given set, so it matches a single word character or dash, but only one character if you want to match it more than once, you have to use a quantifier like item 1 or item 2 from the quantifier list; or the second Quantifiers list in perlre So you might write `m{^Users of (.+?): $Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) li +cense in use$$}im m{^Users of ([^:]*): $Total of (.+?) licenses issued; Total of (.+?) +license in use$$}im m{^Users of ([^:]+): $Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\d+) +license in use$$}im m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): $Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\ +d+) license in use$$}im m{^Users of ([\w\_\-]+): \(Total of (\d+) licenses issued; Total of (\ +d+)}im` [download] Modern Perl ch 6 is also an introduction to regex	[reply] [d/l]

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