Re: How to make substitute greedy like sed's substitute

The issue is not that you are not greedy enough - you are too greedy.

$scalarWorkingConfig =~ s/.*(XXXXX[ |   ]*<$domainProperty .*$domainPr
+operty>).*/$1/g;
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The first .* is greedy; it tries to catch as much as possible ... which includes all of your <Reasons...> - parts except of the last one.

Try replacing it with .*?

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Re^2: How to make substitute greedy like sed's substitute by PerlJedi (Novice) on Mar 30, 2010 at 09:20 UTC
Thanks Ratazong ... It works fine as required with the .*?	[reply]