in reply to really non greedy match

$ perl -le'
my $text = "START text I don\047t want START only text I want END";
print scalar reverse reverse( $text ) =~ /(DNE.*?TRATS)/;
'
START only text I want END

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Re^2: really non greedy match
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2010 at 06:11 UTC
    That changes the problem case from START...START...END to START...END...END
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