Howdy Monks. I have some text extracted from blog posts that in some cases includes an unwanted footer info that I want to lop off. Thing is, in some cases this is marked by a word that could theoretically occur legitimately earlier in the text. So for example let's say I have something like this 
Tags are very useful to included in these posts.   Interested in growi
+ng a home based business go here.  
Tags:   Vemma Builder  ·  wallstrip  ·  Vemma  ·  Vegas  
//  Mar 2nd 2007 at 3:30 am      vemma killa        
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and I want to get rid of everything from the second "Tags" to the end. If I say $text = s/Tags.+?$//; then it matches all the text. Is there some way to specify that it should use the "least inclusive" match from the end in order to prevent this?

Many TIA...

Steve

In reply to regexp: least inclusive match? by cormanaz

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