"We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky and it would be so much less fun if we were. There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours."
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre.
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
Quentin Crisp (Denis Charles Pratt, 1908-1999)
use warnings;
use strict;
while (<DATA>){
my @matches;
@matches = (/(?<=%>)%(^%+)%(?=%<)/g);
print join ' ', @matches;
print "\n";
}
__DATA__
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