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=~ /(XMI\d\d\d)/ should work. The entire string matched will show up in 
$1 afteward. This presumes that not other characters will show in the 
string.

Its also likely that

=~ /(XMI\d+)/ or even /(XMI/d*)/ would work too (the first would match 1 
or more 'digits' the second would match 0 or more).

If you don't need to use $1 for anything, you can ditch the parens.

Mike


Chris Fowler wrote:
> I need to do a match using perl regex.  Here is the possible strings
> that will be in a stream:
> 
> XMI
> XMI001
> XMI002
> XMI###
> 
> Were the '#' could be any number.  I need to be able to detect that
> the above pattern matches in a chunk of data.  What is the correct
> regex that will fit that pattern?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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