Re^2: extract text between slashes

Also, keep in mind that he wants the contents of the *second* pair of slashes. Assuming that the first one with the percent sign is static, m{/\%/(.*?)/} might work. otherwise, he could grab all matches and filter out the wrong ones, or split the whole string beforehand:

# method 1
@matches = $string =~ m{/(.*?)/}g;

# method 2
@matches = split m{/}, $string;

# print the one you want
print $matches[1];
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Re^3: extract text between slashes by johngg (Canon) on Oct 31, 2007 at 19:50 UTC
Unfortunately, your method 1 isn't going to do the trick because the regex is going to consume `%/%/` when doing the first match and the next attempted match is left with `ISIN/US1252691001` to work with so the match fails. `$ perl -le ' > $string = q{%/%/ISIN/US1252691001}; > @matches = $string =~ m{/(.*?)/}g; > print for @matches;' % $` [download] Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]