Regex question. I have something similar to this: 
use strict;

my $lines = "";
while(<DATA>)
{
    $lines .= $_;
}

$lines =~ s/^s.*?e p$//msg;
print $lines;

__DATA__
Random String
s
erartt
e p
s
foo
e f
blah blah
s
adflkja
e p
End of file

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I want to get this: 
Random String
s
foo
e f
blah blah
End of file

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as the expression is non-greedy, but instead I get nothing. I realize this is because it encounters the s and matches the least to the next e p. So I can evaluate each match and deal with it there, but I was wondering if there was a better way to accomplish this. Update: fixed the data space and added more information to the testcase.

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In reply to Matching and replacing the minimum string from the tail of the regex by abitkin

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