Re: Help required on understanding regular expressions

[NetWallah]

in reply to Help required on understanding regular expressions

The "]" was facing the wrong way, and I don't know why you used the "\k". This one works:

/(?<fname>\w+\b)\s(?<mname>\w+)\s(?<lname>\w+\s).*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/

[bimleshsharma]

I dont understand the code.. /(?<fname>\w+\b)\s(?<mname>\w+)\s(?<lname>\w+\s).*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/ what it is looking for from string?

[NetWallah]

/(?<fname>\w+\b) # Looks for "\w" (Word characters followed by a word 
+boundary (look up \w and \b)
                 # and creates $+{name}

\s(?<mname>\w+)\s # Same thing - Whitespace on both sides

(?<lname>\w+\s)   # Same thing 

.*\[(?<date>[^\]]+)/ # looks for "[", followed by anything that is NOT
+ "]", and populates $+{date}

All this is in the "perlre" document.