Use the modifier notation might be of great style as well,

perl -nle 'print $1 while /constant=(.*)\s/g' /home/jamie/txt

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But I remark the association of -l and \s vs. a more explicite regexp does not behave well in case of many matches on the same line!

Try it for example with a txt file as follow,

xxxxxxxxx constant=foo@bar.com xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxx constant=baz@huux.org xxxxxxx contant=hello@world.bye xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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will print,

foo@bar.com
baz@huux.org xxxxxxx contant=hello@world.bye

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I think the problem comes from (.*) that is greedy and matches even spaces at the condition there is at least one space remaining to satisfie \s. But I try (.*?) and the /g flag does not seem ok?

In reply to Re^2: grep question using multiple lines by backstab
in thread grep question using multiple lines by bradcathey

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