[thelist] Perl Regex

[Jeremy Hare]

Or you can use U pattern modifier to make it ungreedy
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> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:29:37AM +0530, Manish Sharma wrote:
> >> s/<.+>//;
> >> will not work!
> >> 
> >> If I use the above REGEX on the following line:
> >> <TITLE>Test title</TITLE>
> >> it matches the entire line! (Picks up the fist < and the last >)
> 
> You ran into Perl's greedy matching :). I believe changing .+ with .+?
> will fix your problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Toby
> 
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