regex replacement

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a series of XML type tags that I need to remove from a document. A simple regex should do the trick, I just can't figure out what it is.

I need to match the following, where "FOOBAR" can be anything:

<MOD_FOOBAR />
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I've attempted to match with the following regex's:

s/^<MOD_.*\s\/>//g;
s/^<MOD_.* \/>//g;
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But they do not work.

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Re: regex replacement by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 17, 2004 at 12:17 UTC
try to define what does "anything" mean. E.g. non-angles `s/^<MOD_[^>]+>//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: regex replacement by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2004 at 12:25 UTC
That did it, thanks	[reply]
Re: regex replacement by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Sep 17, 2004 at 12:24 UTC
Non-greedy matching ought to fix you up: `s/^<MOD_.?\/>//g;` [download] Caution:* Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]