Hi Monks, I am eternally humbled by how little I know of perl and regular expressions. How can I match variable length data between /FIRST/ .. /LAST/ (without including FIRST and LAST. Also what is the difference between ".." and "..."? I'm trying to do this:

if( @test = ($_ =~ /\d+\s/i ... /\sseconds/i) ) print "Test Data: @test\n";

__Input__
192.168.1.1 seconds
192.168.1.1 links.html links, index.html index 10 seconds 
192.168.1.1 article1.html  art1, article2.html art2, adpage 200 second
+s    
    
But my output is only: 
__DESIRED_OUTPUT__
Test Data: index.html index 5 
Test Data: links.html links, index.html index 10 
Test Data:  article1.html  art1, article2.html art2, adpage 200

__REAL_OUTPUT___
Test Data: 0
Test Data: 0
Test Data: 0
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