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what does below code do ??

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:54:42 -0700

Hi,

I have below code :

my($abc) = "fred<hello>3hello";
$abc =~ /^[^\d]{2,4}<([^>]+)>\d?\1$/;

if (defined($1)) {
print "$1\n";
} else {
print "not found\n";

}
}

What is the code doing ?? what function of the regular expression

$abc =~ /^[^\d]{2,4}<([^>]+)>\d?\1$/;

??

Re: what does below code do ??

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:56:41 -0700

^ - beginning of the string
[^\d]{2,4} - 2 to 4 characters not containing a digit
([^>]+) - \1 will be one or more characters until '>'
\d? - zero or one digit
\1 - match word '\1' (hello)
$ - final of the string

What is the code doing?
- Matches a string.

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