On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Yvonne Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
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> if ($mymatch =~ m/\'(.+)\;/gis) { #matches anything between the single
^^
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>
>
> But the problem occurs when I add this into a bigger code segment, it
> just goes crazy! And seems to match te complete opposite.
>
> And ideas?
You seem to be bitten by the greedy match. By default, the quantifiers
(such as + and *) will match as many as possible. You need the ? to
suppress the greed behaviour. This ? is different form the ? used to
optional unit.
$_ = "'first; second;";
print $1, "\n" if /'(.+);/; # first; second
print $1, "\n" if /'(.+?);/; # first
Btw, /gis seems redundant to me. So do the backslases.
hth;
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