Re^3: regex finding longest string containing n of $c

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A regex is not going to do it for you because it will find the first match regardless of the length of the match. If you need to find the shortest (or longest) match then you need to find all the matches and select the best. A regex on it's own generally doesn't do that.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^4: regex finding longest string containing n of $c by xipho (Scribe) on Sep 01, 2005 at 05:01 UTC
Since I want to start at the begining of $foo, and can use *? between $c, Mark's updated solution works as desired.	[reply]

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