Monks, I've got a very long list of data that I need to parse but I'm unable to get my regex to stop being greedy. The data is formatted as follows... [[{bunches of data}, {more data}, {etc}], [{hey more data}, {etc}, {etc}], [{etc}, {etc}, {etc}]] and my regex looks like this, 
#counter is equal to the number of [] pairs
while($counter)
{

    if($content =~ /\[{(.*)?}\](.+)/)
        {
                   print OUT "$counter\n";
        print OUT "$1\n";

                $content = $2;
        }

    #}]], "plt":
    --$counter;
}

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The idea is to get the regex to grab each [] pair one at a time but instead the first pass grabs everything up to the ending }]] Help me perl monks, you are my only hope

In reply to Non Greedy? by feetslashbirds

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