use strict;
my $str = ' An account failed to log on.
Subject:
Security ID: S-1-5-21-1287344763-2688370722-3395302928-19873
Account Name: service_adfs
Account Domain: DOMAIN
Logon ID: 0xD62E4
Logon Type: 3
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID: S-1-0-0
Account Name: user.thatiwant@DOMAIN.com
Account Domain: ';
my $regex = qr/Account For Which Logon Failed.* Account Name:.+?\b(.*?)\s/sp;
if ( $str =~ /$regex/ ) {
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