(edited on 18 April to correct what btrott notes below)

Your regexp asks for: 

the literal string "frame="
followed by ONE character from a character class containing alphanumer
+ics and the underscore AND an asterisk!
followed by the ampersand
repeated zero or one times

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and gets rid of them. What matches in your string is in bold: &frame=content. Can you see why?

I think you want something like this: $print_link =~ s/frame=(\w*)&*?/$1/; This looks for your "frame=", saves all word characters, looks for 0 or more ampersands non-greedily, and substitutes just the saved alphanumerics for the whole thing.

If you were to use CGI.pm -- and you probably should -- you could do: my $frame = $q->param("frame");

In reply to Re: Regexp problem by chromatic
in thread Regexp problem by Maclir

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