I have a little regex problem: 
while(<ASX>) {
    next unless m{<REF HREF=(.*)/>};
    $address = $1;
    $address =~ s/\"//g;
    print PLAYLIST $address, "\n\n";
}

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Is there anyway to get rid of that temporary value $address? I've tried: 
next unless m{<REF HREF=\"?(.*)\"?/>};

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which doesn't work because * is greedy, so I tried: 
next unless m{<REF HREF=\"?(.*?)\"?/>};

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Which should work, considering *? is lazy, and ? is greedy, but it still doesn't. Can on of you monks shed some light on this?

edit: A typical line i'd be matching is 
<REF HREF="mms://<some_address>.(wma|wmv|maybeSomethingElse)" />

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But i'm not sure if it will always have quotes in it.

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In reply to Matching optionally quoted string by JoshuaD

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