Hi All,

I'm learning Perl and while working on a small project I came up upon this issue: I need to extract the substring marked as XXX in the following text using RegEx: 

 "Label1 : XXX Label2 : aaaa Label3 : bbbb Label5 : ccc and so on...."

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The regular expression should probably look like this: 

 
$txt =~ /Label1 : (.*) Label2 :/i)

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only the second label is arbitrary, meaning that it's not always "Label2" it could be some other text. Basically, I want to extract the value after the first label. The string length of this value is unknown.

I hope I'm making some sense here :) Thanks for any help.

Marius

In reply to RegEx question by mariuspopovici

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