Re: Perl 5's "non-greedy" matching can be TOO greedy!

[Nathan Torkington]

Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> Couldn't the be an option (a modifier) to do this?  Then if someone
> asks to wait until all the electrons spin down, so be it...

Only if we can get MjD's wordy regex modifiers:

  /a.*?b/{heatdeath}

Nat :-)