Hello,
Perl beginner here. I am having difficulty with a regular expression
that uses non-greedy matches. Here is a sample code snippet:
$test = "Yea 123xrandomYea 456xdumdumNay 789xpop";
while ($test =~ /Yea (.*?)x.*?(?:Nay (.*?)x)?/g)
{
print "$1\n";
print "$2\n";
}
The idea is that every 'phrase' is delimited with an 'x' and there are
random letters between phrases.
I expect to see:
123
456
789
But instead I get:
123
456
Why don't I get the second part of the regular expression?
Thanks!
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