Re: Re (tilly) 1: Delving the regexp underdark -- how to understand \G's behavior, or how to loop through a regular expression

whoops.
the regexps ARE actually .*s. I was just too busy being witty to notice the typo.

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Re (tilly) 3: Delving the regexp underdark -- how to understand \G's behavior, or how to loop through a regular expression by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 02, 2001 at 21:22 UTC
`use strict; my $text = <<EOT; foo this is one example bar this is a line I don't care about foo here's another keeper! bar foo yet another bar and a line to reject EOT while ($text =~/foo(.*?)bar/gs) { print "$1\n"; }` [download] Works perfectly well for me. Note that the s modifier that I added to the RE allows your extracted text to extend across multiple lines. I don't know if that will matter to you.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re (tilly) 3: Delving the regexp underdark -- how to understand \G's behavior, or how to loop through a regular expression
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 02, 2001 at 21:22 UTC

use strict;
my $text = <<EOT;
foo this is one example bar
this is a line I don't care about
foo here's another keeper! bar
foo yet another bar
and a line to reject
EOT

while ($text =~/foo(.*?)bar/gs) {
   print "$1\n"; 
}
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