Filip Jursik wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> this > > $text = "first first second third"; > $text =~ /(first.*?third)/; > print $1; > > gives me > > "first first second third" > > as a result instead of expected > > "first second third" > > What am I doing wrong? I've expected the .*? to limit the wildcard only > to the string " second ". print $1 if $text =~ /(first(?!.*?first).*?third)/; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
