Hi, Whenever I use the .. operator to do some matching of records in a file I constantly bump into the fact that the condition that causes the right operand to become false again evaluates to true. Example:

my @aap = qw( 0aap 0noot 1mies 2mies 0aap 0noot 1mies 6mies );
foreach (@aap) {
        if (/^1(.*)/ .. /^0(.*)/) {
                print "$1\n";
        }
}
__END__
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I don't want to process the line containing '0aap' (because it ended the .. operator), so I do something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my @aap = qw( 0aap 0noot 1mies 2mies 0aap 0noot 1mies 6mies );
foreach (@aap) {
        if (( /^1(.*)/ .. /^0(.*)/ ) && !/^0/) {
                print "$1\n";
        }
}
__END__
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which works but is harder to read, and less elegant. Do other people use more elegant/readable solutions for this?

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