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How to match a string with (whitespace at start) Roman numerals followed by a dot and anything more?

Oct 15th, 2003 07:26
Fred Jounters, http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2747

Since the question might be a bit short...
I've tried matching strings like
VII. Hello..
  II. sfs
So the rule could be: 
Match any line, that has(or has not) whitespace from the start on, 
followed by a roman numeral, and then by a dot and a whitespace, 
followed by anything else.
I've tried
$_ =~ /^(\s*?)(m?m?m?(c[md]|d?c{0,3})(x[lc]|l?x{0,3})(i[xv]|v?i{0,3}))
+(\.{1})(.*)$/
in Perl, which doens't do it...
Any ideas? Thanks!