help tweaking regular expression in perl

Question

Can someone help me tweak this regex? It's grabbing 72.49 GB and I'm ONLY interested in the value 72.49

$line =~ m/(backup-size)[:=](.+)/

Raw String:

Tue Jan 04 05:45:34 2011: db2.mil.mad:backup:INFO: backup-size=72.49 GB

Answer 1

Try this:

$line =~ m/backup-size[:=]([\d.]+) GB/;

To select both the size and the unit in separate groups:

$line =~ m/backup-size[:=]([\d.]+) (.B)/;

Answer 2

$line =~ m/backup-size[:=](\d+\.?\d*)\s*[KMG]B/i;