use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $string = "A dun dun B ignorable A something B\n";

my @contents = $string =~ /A (.*?) B/g;

print Dumper \@contents;

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Will output: 
$VAR1 = [
          'dun dun',
          'something'
        ];

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With the key bits being the use of /g and assigning in list context.

If your strings can possibly overlap each other, then you've got more work to do, but it sounds like that is not the case here.

In reply to Re: Grab "as many occurrences as there are" in a long string by SuicideJunkie
in thread Grab "as many occurrences as there are" in a long string by locked_user sundialsvc4

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