Thanks to both of you. I've tried adding and removing the g modifier, but never tried without the last operator.

The sample code was a simplification of my real problem, where I'm trying to capture one specific record from one kind of table from a set of html documents, where each field has it's own line in the source.

Doing that way, I had to split the original regex in two:

  1. one to identify the required record by the value of the first field
  2. another to the capture of the data fields

BTW, the original regex was something like this:

  my ($k, @f) = ($h =~ m!<td.*?>(required_\d+_\d+.txt)</td>\s+(<td.*?>
+(.+?)</td>\s+)+</tr>!m);

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Then, the ",+" actually meant whitespace "\s+", but I wanted to make them visible in the output. ;-)

In reply to Re^2: Iterations in regex by vitoco
in thread Iterations in regex by vitoco

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