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  • All Tokens
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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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use strict; my $str = ' 22/09/2015 11:05:41 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0262 22/09/2015 11:08:02 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0264 22/09/2015 11:10:08 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0229 22/09/2015 11:12:03 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0188 22/09/2015 11:14:22 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0292 22/09/2015 11:16:48 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0245 22/09/2015 11:18:37 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0243 22/09/2015 11:20:56 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0261 22/09/2015 11:22:53 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0228 22/09/2015 11:24:43 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0204 22/09/2015 11:26:38 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0223 22/09/2015 11:28:29 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0257 22/09/2015 11:30:20 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0371 22/09/2015 11:32:14 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0376 22/09/2015 11:36:18 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0222 22/09/2015 11:39:28 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0234 22/09/2015 11:41:23 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0255 22/09/2015 11:43:24 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0242 22/09/2015 11:46:30 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0354 22/09/2015 11:50:04 | Dispense complete for COTTON, final dispense weight was 0.0294'; my $regex = qr/(?:\d*\.)?\d+$/mp; if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) { print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n"; # print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n"; # print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n"; } # ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p' # Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html