Perl Regex Examples

Syntax

Perl Regex Reference

Misc

Bad and Good Extraction using Regular Expressions

 # Always use named capute groups and %+, for example:
 if($str =~ /(?&lt;field1>\w+)\s+(?&lt;field2>\w+)(\s+(?&lt;field3>\w+))?/) {
     %result = %+;
 }