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From: e DOT j DOT pronk AT philips DOT com
To: <neillunn AT gunz DOT com DOT au>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl 5.6.1 bug report
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:07:20 +0200
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neillunn AT gunz DOT com DOT au wrote:
> > > > > while ( $input =~ /(.*?)#/gsm ) {

> Actually it should be right in all perl 5.6.1 builds. Which leads me to say
> that I am actually not sure which one is the bug, but it is not a "cygwin"
> bug.

> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this but I thought (*?) with /s as
> a modifier would never match more than once. In fact, try the same string
> with no newlines and it should only match once.

This is from perlfaq6 - Regexes :

=====
I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?

Here's code that finds everything between START and END in a paragraph:

    undef $/;           # read in whole file, not just one line or
paragraph
    while ( <> ) {
        while ( /START(.*?)END/sm ) { # /s makes . cross line boundaries
            print "$1\n";
        }
    }
=====

Eddy

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