Hello wise men.

I am struggling with regular expressions. I know the fundamentals, but when I want to add two conditions within one "/.../", I have no idea how to do that.

What I want is for the program to print only what is between ">" and "<" at each line, but only if there isn't another > or < within the original ones. For instance: >knowledge< is good and >knowled<ge< is bad. My while-loop looks like this: 
while (<FILE>) { />(.+) and (^\w+)</; print "$1 "};

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The (^\w+) should match only strings that start with one or more alphanumeric character. Although it doesn't quite work as hoped.

I appreciate any help you experts may provide.

In reply to Multiple conditions by Erosia

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