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) ;

What's the last \D for ?  '\s*?' should just be '\s*' - same with \D*?.

> 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

use strict;
use warnings;

my $body = 'Library Card: 0240742';
my $OK_body = ($body =~ /library\s*card\D*(\d{7})/i);
print "OK_body = ", $OK_body ? 'true' : 'false', "\n";

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