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Well, that does tell us that you're not chomping the input, which you should be doing. chomp @array; would take care of that problem. What it doesn't show me is how the following would fail:

my @array = (
  'sn ThisUser',
  'mail: ThisUser@somewhere.com',
  'cn: This User',
  'uid: MyUID',
);

foreach my $line ( @array ) {
  if( $line =~ m/^mail:\s+([\S]+)/ ) {
    print "$1\n";
  }
}
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It doesn't fail on my system, which leads me to believe that the problem is in a portion of your code that we're not seeing, or in your data-set. If your data-set looks clean, we're back to the portion of the code that we haven't been shown.

Dave

In reply to Re^7: Problem with ampersand and regex by davido
in thread Problem with ampersand and regex by Anonymous Monk

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