in reply to extract pattern from large blob of text

...and why are you not directly extracting the string, like /var nonce = "(.*?)";/? (untested) $1 will contain what you look for.

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Re^2: extract pattern from large blob of text
by littleperl (Initiate) on Mar 06, 2015 at 15:17 UTC
    thank you very much for the great assistance, case solved.