John wrote:
> 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
>
>
> Having looked at other replies to this, isn't it irrelevant what comes
> after the "(\d{7})" part of the re.
Depends - I'd put a \b after it if you want to make sure there are no more
characters in the field/number.
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