in reply to Regular Expression match too much

Random thought -- if it's a web form you could set the maximum characters of the field to 2. That would diminish the possibilities for error.

($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

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Re^2: Regular Expression match too much
by enemyofthestate (Monk) on Feb 09, 2006 at 12:24 UTC
    The data is parsed from an XML document. I have no control over what the customer puts in it so I have to do a lot of sanity checking
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