Regular Expression Error

geek.shrek · August 31st, 2009, 11:27 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to split a line if it's match with my pattern.
I would like to get [user:myuser][filename:test.txt][status:pending][here something else] from a line.

eg. $line is

Code:

[localhost 2009/09/01 12:34:02] ME INFO: [user:myuser][filename:test.txt][status:pending][here something else]

Code:

if($line =~ /.*(\[.*\]{3,}).*/)
{
   print $line;
}

My regex doesn't match with my line.
Can someone tell me what's wrong with my regular expression.

Thanks

chorny · September 6th, 2009, 01:05 PM

Of course it wouldn't match - you don't have ']]]' in your string.

use /((?:\[.*\]){3,})/