Re: Capturing everything after an optional character in a regex?

I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for (i.e. doesn't break something else somewhere else...) but I find that:

 perl -e '$string="abcX123"; $string =~ /X+?(\S+)/; print $1;'
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works for me... HTH

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Re: Re: Capturing everything after an optional character in a regex? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 10, 2003 at 03:52 UTC
$string = "abcX123"; ($afterX) = ($string =~ /X(.*)/); print $afterX;	[reply]