> I've tried with /g alone and also with /gs, /gm, and /gms. As long as /s is
> one of the modifiers I do match one instance, but in no case do I match
> multiple instances. Weird.
Give this a try...
while (<MYFILE>) {
if(m/(p1).*?(p2)/gs) {
print "match! found $1 and $2.\n";
}
}
The problem is '.*' is greedy and slurps up everything between the first (p1) and the
last (p2). '.*?' is non-greedy and will only match until the next instance of (p2).
Shawn
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