G'day medium.dave,

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The braces are special in regexes. .{32760} matches 32,760 characters; it performs no match on the string containing 32760. See perlre: Quantifiers for more complete details.

What you need to do is escape the braces. Something like this: 

$ perl -wE 'my $x = q[X{123}X]; say $x; $x =~ /([{]123[}])/; say $1'
X{123}X
{123}

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Although you haven't shown the complete context of your code, the caret (^) in your regex looks dubious. Perhaps take a step back and read "perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial".

— Ken

In reply to Re: Matching n characters with m//g by kcott
in thread Matching n characters with m//g by medium.dave

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