On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jeffrey Wheat wrote:
> I am trying to match on the following:
>
> [1\23] 2002-12-17 14:00:09 18OMwr-000JED-00 H=sbs1941.customer.demon.com (jbrserver.sbs1941.customer.demon.com) [194.159.222.168] F=davedader@???> rejected after DATA: ACL-Reject: Forgery:NOT FROM HOTMAIL ( from sbs1941.customer.demon.com ([194.159.222.168] helo=jbrserver.sbs1941.customer.demon.com)
>
> With the following:
>
> if ($text =~ /^[\d\/\d]\s\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d\s\d\d:\d\d:\d\d/) {
^
^
[ is a metacharacter in regexes. Your regex starts off
^ begins
[\d\/\d] a character that is either a digit or /
\s a space
...
Try backslashing the [] characters. Also, you probably want
\[\d+\/\d+\]
don't you?
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