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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: a regular expression question
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Date: 28 May 90 20:40:06 GMT
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   From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET

   Could anyone help? I want only "cp\s<anything>@<anything>\s<anything>" to
   match.

Use "cp" =~ /cp\s.*@.*\s.*/

Otherwise, the *'s modify the \s's and @ that preceeds them.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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