c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "use 5.010; ;; my $s = 'aaa bbb ccc dd ee ff dd TAG=lls foo TAG=some randome tag TAG=last_tag'; ;; my @ra = $s =~ m{ TAG \s* = \K (?: (?! \s* TAG) .)* }xmsg; dd \@ra; " ["lls foo", "some randome tag", "last_tag"]