Perhaps you need to change the final \D to \D* since it is possible that
there is nothing after the 7 digits. Or perhaps omit the last \D completely.
Your code works with;
$body='Library Card: 0240742 '; # has a character after the 7 digits
but fails with;
$body='Library Card: 0240742'; # no character after the 7 digits
jim
David Budd wrote:
I thought this was working, but my logs just showed a case where it seems not
to do what I want.
Why does:
$OK_body=($body=~/library\s*?card\D*?(\d{7})\D/i) ;
Not become true when $body contains:
Library Card: 0240742
Just possibly there's some dodgy html or something in the original that doen't
make it through to my logs, but right now I'm perplexed
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