in reply to Regular Expression problem when Extracting Start\ VALUE \End

Backslashes are a pain in the back. Slash. The problem is that your regex ends up being /TRicky\(.*?)\endTricky/ because your variables interpolate. When that gets compiled as a regex, it's a problem because the trailing backslash of "TRicky\" has escaped the opening parenthesis. I would suggest using my $StartTag = qr/TRicky\\/; my $EndTag = qr/\\endTricky/; The qr// operator will keep things properly backslashed later, because the content is treated like a regex.
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Re: Regular Expression problem when Extracting Start\ VALUE \End
by gasho (Beadle) on Sep 30, 2005 at 15:50 UTC
    Thank you all for quick responses 
    #Works fine
my $StartTag = qr/TRicky\\/;
my $EndTag = qr/\\endTricky/;

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