Re: Regex becomes greedy with /s

It's not that the .+? becomes greedy, it's that /s allows dot to match newlines. Thus, the leftmost match can start earlier. Maybe you want to use HTML::LinkExtor or an HTML parser, or maybe even Web::Scraper, or even HTML::Selector::XPath

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Re^2: Regex becomes greedy with /s by pingo (Hermit) on Feb 26, 2010 at 10:24 UTC
Ah... I think I understand. And this is just a throwaway script I am working on (at least I am fairly sure it is ;-)). If it was something more permanent, I'd certainly use one of the modules you mention.	[reply]
Re^3: Regex becomes greedy with /s by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 26, 2010 at 23:35 UTC
Another argument for TheDamian's PBP regex recommendation that a standard set of regex modifiers be used, even in 'throwaway' scripts. E.g., `m{pattern}xms`	[reply] [d/l]