Suppose I have the following in a text file "fbb_test": 

/foo/bar/baz

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Now suppose I have the following script: 

#!/tool/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $file = "/tmp/fbb_test";

open(FILE, $file) || die("ERROR: Unable to open $file for read, exitin
+g...\n");

while (<FILE>)
{
    chomp($_);

    if ($_ =~ /\/(.+?)$/)
    {
        printf("captured $1\n");
    }
}

close(FILE);

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The script is returning "captured foo/bar/baz". Given that I specified the non-greedy operator (?), I would have expected the result to be "baz", as the non-greedy operator would have matched as few characters as possible between a forward slash and the end of the line. What am I missing here?

In reply to Why does this non-greedy match not work? by Special_K

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