Re: match longest sequence in an "or" RE

Please show more of your code. The following works for me as you seem to want:

> perl -wle "$_='foo s f pl bar';print for /^.+(s m e f|s f pl|s f).+$
+/;"
s f pl
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Most likely, $line does not contain what you think it contains, or maybe there is nothing after s f pl in your input string.

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Re^2: match longest sequence in an "or" RE by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Sep 24, 2011 at 19:23 UTC
However, this does not work if silentius wants the longest match anywhere in the string. See counter-example in Re^2: match longest sequence in an "or" RE.	[reply]
Re^2: match longest sequence in an "or" RE by silentius (Monk) on Sep 24, 2011 at 16:54 UTC
You are right! There was nothing after the "s f pl". Thank you very much!	[reply]