Question

I’m trying to write a regex to match the first attribute before both : and ! so either PASS SKIP OR FAIL

PASS   : test::subtest()  message
SKIP :    test::subtest2()  message
FAIL! : test::subtest3()  message

The following regex works

([^:]*)

but it also matches the ! with FAIL!

So I tried

([^:!]*) 

but that doesn’t work it doesn’t match FAIL! at all.

EDIT
sorry debugging wrong thing we need to look at full regex

if($line =~ m/([^:!]+):\s?([^:]*)::([^(]*)(\([^\)]*\))(.*)/)

Answer 1

Can you provide more code? It works for me:

ckruse@achilles ~ $ perl -e 'print "FAIL! : blabla" =~ /^([^:!]+)/ ? "yes: $1" : "no","\n"'

yes: FAIL