Regarding Regular Expressions

[Perl4learners]

Hi, i am very new to perl, i want to know wat does the following regular expression means,,
$area =~ m!main/(.*)/WORKAREA/!;

thanks

 

[KevinADC]

it means $area matches a pattern:

main/(zero or more of anything here)/WORKAREA





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[KevinADC]

I forgot to include that the part of the pattern that matches (.*) is stored in pattern memory in a variable you can access: $1 (dollar sign and a one).

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