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in thread Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

My problem with the first match is it matches too much... 
original:
"<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no tabs here</p>"

result of first regex:
no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2

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What I want it to match is... 
column 1[tab]column 2

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Since that is the set of para's with the string [tab].

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Re^3: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.
by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:20 UTC
    My first shot was too fast, here's a working solution: 
    my $contents = "<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no t
+abs here</p>";

if ($contents =~ m{(<p>[^<>]*\[tab\][^<>]*</p>)} ){
    print "Matched '$1'\n;";
}

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