Dear monks,

I am trying to match a string within some HTML but seem to be having some trouble doing so. The following is part of the HTML source that I am looking to match:

name="challenge" value="26eca68705b3b0c76a6d0602937ac524"

I want to grab the string for value. I am using grouping in my regexp and expect therefore that $1 will return 26eca68...etc, essentially the string in between the quotes for the value parameter. Here is the regexp I am using: 

$returned_data =~ s/\n//g;

my $c_code = $returned_data;
$c_code =~ m/name="challenge" value="(.*)"/; #"
print $1 . "\n";

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When $1 is printed it does not just print the text in between the quotes but instead prints all the remaining text after the first quote of the value parameter so like this: 26eca68705b3b0c76a6d0602937ac524" /><input type="hidden" id="md5pass" name="md5pass" value="1" /><input type="hidden" id="noerror" name="noerror" value="1" /><label><span>Email:</span><input type="text" class="inputtext" name="....MORE HTML SOURCE...

Any ideas as to why $1 seems to be capturing more that it should?

use strict;
use CGI;

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In reply to Regexp question by davidov0009

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