$ perl -e '($s)="aaabbaabbb"=~/(a.*)b/;print "$s\n";'
aaabbaabb
$ perl -e '($s)="aaabbaabbb"=~/(a.*?)b/;print "$s\n";'
aaa

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my @items = /$rxExtract/g;

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my $string = <DATA>;

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my @items = $string =~ /$rxExtract/g;

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s/\n(?=.)/\t/g for @items;