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BrowserUK:

I think the "expanded" problem is reasonable given the title, since the title specifies patterns X and Y rather than specific characters. The way I read the OP is that (s)he properly simplified it to a trivial case in the example.

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Re^4: Regex text extraction b/w first intance of pattern X and third instance of pattern Y.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2010 at 17:15 UTC

    I agree, though the use of index isn't going to handle "patterns" in the "Regex" sense of the term. But absense the narrative, it would have had my upvote.

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