Regex problem in perl

[ankur2007]

I don't understand why wouldn't this regex :

if(m/\s+([\w+\+-])\s+\/\s+\+\s+\w+\s+\ w+\s+\w+\s+\w+$/)

match the second NA


in this string (all in one line):

NA hsa-mir-129-1 hsa-mir-129-1 Targets No Relationship to Gene 7 NA / + NA NA 127635160 127635232

[miller]

Your problem is with this "([\w+\+-])"

You should probably read up on regular expression from perldoc:
perldoc perlrequick

However, this would work as a replacement: (?:\w|\-)+

- Miller

[savanm]

hi try this

if(m/\s+([\w]+)\+-\s+\/\s+\+\s+\w+\s+\ w+\s+\w+\s+\w+$/)