Hi there Monks,
In my code I have this:
my $title = "This is the New Title cool_image.gif Tue Feb 8 09:43:17 2
+005";
if($title =~/(.*?)(\w+|\W+\.\w+)(.*?)/ig){

print "<br><b><font color=yellow>**1=$1 *2=$2 * 3=$3 *****</b></font><
+br>"; 
}else{print "<br><b><font color=yellow>1316 No ok match</b></font>";}

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Actually what I am trying to get, is this part out of the text:
This is the New Title, and ignore the rest, but I am having no luck, why I am not matching on the first $1?
I just need to grab any text before it finds an image name.
Thank you for the help!

In reply to Matching Problem by Anonymous Monk

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