Chas Owens wrote:
The pattern /#.*\s(\S+)/ matches a literal # followed by anything up to a space and captures all contiguous non-space characters: "31 Aug 2007 04:00:22 GMT " prematch "#" matches # "8810118 337545 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" matches .* " " matches \s "bouncing" matches \S+ Even turning on non-greedy matching won't help, it will just cause it to match 337545. So we need to take a different approach. Try /#\d+\s+\d+\s+(\S*)/ instead.
Thanks for the explanation Chas. The regex pattern you provided worked! Thank you..
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