Re^2: How do I match the closest of repeated strings?

I tried that (as it seemed like the obvious thing to do), but it didn't work. I got the match from the first abc up to the def.

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Re^3: How do I match the closest of repeated strings? by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 29, 2008 at 20:00 UTC
`'xyz abc 123 abc pqr abc get this bit def ijk abc lmn' =~ /.abc(.?)d +ef/sm; print ">$1<";` [download] Prints: `> get this bit <` [download] which is what I understood you to want. Update: Ah, I see it did do what you want. ;) Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply] [d/l] [select]