Dear monks, 
use strict;
use warnings;
my $str = '6AG3_608_FGG_20100124_20120923418_20126254447_201262512026.
+txt';
$str =~ m/(.*)(_\d{11,}?.*)(\.\w+)/;
print $1, "\n";
print $2, "\n";
print $3, "\n";

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prints 6AG3_608_FGG_20100124_20120923418_20126254447
_201262512026
.txt


But i want it to print
6AG3_608_FGG_20100124
_20120923418_20126254447_201262512026
.txt


Basically the filename gets appened with "_timestamp" after the YYYMMDD part everytime when it gets processed. i want to strip out the time stamps alone.


What i am doing wrong here?

Any help is much appreciated and thanks.

In reply to why my reg ex matches greedy? by lngperl

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