perl quantifier prob 1

[rickict]

im learning about regular expressions and quantifing and im doing an exercise to validate an email address.
i can't seem to quantifie an exact amount of letters using
[a-z]{3} to say exactly three letters.
the script below just doesn't seem to see the email as FALSE and prints the TRUE response instead.
i just can't see what im doing wrong??

$email ='rick@popex.comm'; # com has 4 letters not 3.
if ($email =~ m/[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]{3}/)
{
print "yeah\n";
print $email;
}
else
{
print.......

any help would be great..........rick

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Regular expressions will complete as return a positive status as soon as possible.
The regex you supplied finishes matching before the last 'm' but because it has succeeded to match every character in the regex, it completes as successful.
To tell it that you DON'T want the last 'm' you must tell it that there must be nothing after the 3rd char.
To do this you could change your regex to 'm/[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]{3}$/'

Trojan

 

[rickict]

great, thanks very much trojanwarblade.......rick