$ perl clms_regex.pl Compiling REx "[\s200c]+A" Final program: 1: PLUS (13) 2: ANYOF[\x{09}-\x{0D} 02c][{utf8}0085 00A0 1680 2000-200A 2028-2029 202F 205F 3000] (0) 13: EXACT (15) 15: END (0) floating "A" at 1..9223372036854775807 (checking floating) stclass ANYOF[\x{09}-\x{0D} 02c][{utf8}0085 00A0 1680 2000-200A 2028-2029 202F 205F 3000] plus minlen 2 Matching REx "[\s200c]+A" against "X %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t %t "... Intuit: trying to determine minimum start position... Did not find floating substr "A"... Match rejected by optimizer Freeing REx: "[\s200c]+A"