Dearest Monks,

I am trying to set up what I thought would be a basic regex to pull out some text, but I can't seem to get the right code jotted down.

I am trying to match everything between "a" and the third instance of "c" in the following string: "abcbcbc" (where "b" is variable). Output should be "bcbcb". But I can't seem to find a way to set the closing parenthetical of the text capture at a point after the first instance of the closing pattern. 

$body = "abcbcbc";
$body =~ /a(.*?)(third instance of c)/;

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How should I specify the third instance of "c"?

Thanks Monks!

Chris

In reply to Regex text extraction b/w first intance of pattern X and third instance of pattern Y. by cdherold

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