Not quite. My fault for not being clear. Don't know where my head is at.

That fixes the initial problem of it finding both matches, which brings the problem of results looking odd when two terms are very close togther as you'll have overlapping fragments.

I misread the output as it capturing incorrectly with that oddly reptetitive input. If I had changed 
this
print "$1<$2>$3"
to this
print "...$1<$2>$3..."

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I would have seen my error. I think I'm going to have to find the spans of interesting text and condense them.


-Lee

perl digital dash (in progress)

In reply to Re^4: Regex: Matching around a word(s) by shotgunefx
in thread Regex: Matching around a word(s) by shotgunefx

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