On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:22:04 +0000
Andrew Solomon <and...@geekuni.com> wrote:

> The only problem I can see is that you want UPPERCASE-1234 and your
> regex has lowercase. Try
> 
> (\A[A-Z]+)   # match and capture leading alphabetics

Please put the anchor outside the capture. And you could use the POSIX
conventions:

        m{ \A ([[:upper:]]+) }msx;

This will work with non-English characters. :)


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        Shawn

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