Re: Regular Expression help

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>) {
    while (/(\bSPORT\b.*?\bEND\b)/g) {print "$1\n"}
}

__DATA__
your long line here
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Re^2: Regular Expression help by 7stud (Deacon) on Nov 05, 2009 at 22:39 UTC
Which "SPORT" and which "END"?	[reply]
Re^2: Regular Expression help by colwellj (Monk) on Nov 05, 2009 at 22:40 UTC
Won't the greedy flag give him every thing between the first SPORT and the last END as a single string?	[reply]
Re^3: Regular Expression help by 7stud (Deacon) on Nov 05, 2009 at 22:56 UTC
It's not a 'greedy' flag. Regular expressions are greedy by default--you don't need a flag for that. The proposed solution actually turns off the greedy nature of a regex by using a non-greedy match: .*?	[reply]
Re^3: Regular Expression help by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 06, 2009 at 00:15 UTC
What happened when you ran the code I posted using the OP's data?	[reply]