Re: really non greedy match

Have you tried the following?

/.*START.*?END/

HTH, Rata

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Re^2: really non greedy match by Allasso (Monk) on Apr 24, 2010 at 21:58 UTC
`thanks, but that wouldn't work for me. I want to use the expression as a delimiter in split.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: really non greedy match by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2010 at 16:41 UTC
Bad use of `split`. The first arg of split is a separator. You want `//g`. `my @parts = $text =~ /START((?:(?!START\|END).)*)END/sg;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]