Re^2: Regex to match between [ref] and [/ref]

Hi,
Thanks - tried those 2, but both give no content (but they do seem to produce 2 matches - just without any values =))

  while  ($test =~ m%\Q[ref]\E(?:(?!\Q[/ref]\E).)*\Q[/ref]\E%gix) {
        print "FOO, $1, $2 and $3 \n";
    }
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..and:

  while  ($test =~ m%\Q[ref]\E[^[]*(?:\[(?!\Q/ref]\E)[^[]*)*\Q[/ref]\E
+%gix) {
        print "FOO, $1, $2 and $3 \n";
    }
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TIA

Andy

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Re^3: Regex to match between [ref] and [/ref] by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 17, 2009 at 10:41 UTC
Not very surprising, is it? Regexes that do not contain capturing parenthesis don't set $1.	[reply]