Dear monks, I have stumbled across an unexpected regex behaviour that I hope someone can explain. More specifically, this is the code: 
$text = "<a href='http://www.example.com/'>Example 1</a>\n<a href='htt
+p://www.example.net/' target='_blank'>Example 2</a>";

my ($a) = $text =~ /<a href='(.+?)' target='_blank'>/s;
print "$a\n";

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And this is the output: 
http://www.example.com/'>Example 1</a>
<a href='http://www.example.net/

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I would have expected this, though: 
http://www.example.net/

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It is not much of a problem as such, as I can always change .+? to [^']+ or remove the /s. What I find a bit odd is that the /s makes the .+? greedy, despite the +?. Could someone please enlighten me?

In reply to Regex becomes greedy with /s by pingo

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