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/^[^+]/ will end at the first empty line (if they really are there as shown).. anyway you are right: I must not post before coffe

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Re^4: Greedy flip flop operator?
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 26, 2018 at 07:51 UTC
    > will end at the first empty line

    Really? Can't test at the moment but an empty line shouldn't match a character class cause it requires at least one character.

    Of course you could have whitespace characters, that's why I'd include \w+

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